Identifying Large Truck Hot Spots Using Crash Counts and PDOEs

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 11-21

  Vadlamani, Sravani ^a   Chen, Erdong ^a   Ahn, Soyoung ^a   Washington, Simon ^b  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crash; Crash severity; High risk sites; Large trucks; Traffic safety

Indexed keywords

CRASH; CRASH SEVERITY; HIGH-RISK SITES; LARGE-TRUCKS; TRAFFIC SAFETY;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AUTOMOBILES; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

TRUCKS;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY;

ARIZONA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78650286164     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)TE.1943-5436.0000183     Document Type: Article

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