Examination of methods to estimate crash counts by collision type

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2165, 2010, Pages 12-20

  Geedipally, Srinivas Reddy ^a   Patil, Sunil ^b   Lord, Dominique ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION TYPES; DATA SET; DEMAND MODELLING; MINNESOTA; MULTINOMIAL LOGIT MODEL; SAMPLE MEANS; SMALL SAMPLE SIZE; TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING; TWO-LANE;

EID: 78651289409     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2165-02     Document Type: Article

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