Revisiting variability of dispersion parameter of safety performance for two-lane rural roads

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2148, 2010, Pages 38-46

  Cafiso, Salvatore ^a   Di Silvestro, Giacomo ^a   Persaud, Bhagwant ^b   Begum, Morjina Ara ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c AECOM   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SAFETY ENGINEERING;

DISPERSION PARAMETERS; EMPIRICAL BAYES ESTIMATION; MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL REGRESSION; PARAMETERS VARIATIONS; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SAFETY PERFORMANCE; SAFETY PERFORMANCE FUNCTION; SEGMENT LENGTHS; TWO-LANE;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 78651317920     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2148-05     Document Type: Article

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