Combined effect of traffic and geometrics on rear-end collision risk: Driving simulator study

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2165, 2010, Pages 96-103

  Bella, Francesco ^a   D'Agostini, Giulia ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; GEOMETRY; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; ROADS AND STREETS; SAFETY ENGINEERING;

COLLISION RISKS; COMBINED EFFECT; DRIVING SIMULATOR; DRIVING SIMULATOR STUDY; GEOMETRIC CONFIGURATIONS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; REAR-END COLLISIONS; TIME TO COLLISION; TRAFFIC CONDITIONS; TRAFFIC VOLUMES;

VEHICLES;

EID: 78651277861     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2165-11     Document Type: Article

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