Project-level life-cycle benefit-cost analysis approach for evaluating highway segment safety hardware improvements

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2160, 2010, Pages 1-11

  Li, Zongzhi ^a   Labi, Samuel ^b   Karlaftis, Matthew ^c   Kepaptsoglou, Konstantinos ^c   Abbas, Montasir ^d   Zhou, Bei ^a   Madanu, Sunil ^a  

^a Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL TESTS;

ANALYSIS APPROACH; BENEFIT/COST ANALYSIS; CONDITION; PROJECT LEVELS; SAFETY IMPROVEMENT; SAFETY INDEXES; SAFETY-RELATED; SEGMENT LENGTHS; TRAFFIC VOLUMES; VEHICLE CRASHES;

LIFE CYCLE;

EID: 78651330393     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2160-01     Document Type: Article

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