Identifying hot spots by modeling single-vehicle and multivehicle crashes separately

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2147, 2010, Pages 97-104

  Geedipally, Srinivas Reddy ^a   Lord, Dominique ^b  

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

^b Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; RISK PERCEPTION;

BLACK SPOT; CRASH RISK; HIGHWAY FACILITIES; HOTSPOTS; MOTOR VEHICLE CRASHES; MULTI-VEHICLES; PER UNIT; PERFORMANCE; SINGLE MODELS; STATISTIC MODELING;

FORECASTING;

EID: 78651300669     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2147-12     Document Type: Article

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