Safety analysis of urban arterials under mixed-traffic patterns in Beijing

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2193, 2010, Pages 105-115

  Ma, Ming ^a   Yan, Xinping ^b   Abdel Aty, Mohamed ^c   Huang, Helai ^c   Wang, Xuesong ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c University of Central Florida   (United States)

^d TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSSWALKS; PEDESTRIAN SAFETY; STREET TRAFFIC CONTROL;

ARTERIAL ROADS; CRASH RISK; FLOW VOLUMES; HEAVY TRAFFICS; MIXED TRAFFIC; ROAD SEGMENTS; SAFETY ANALYSIS; SEVERE CRASHES; TRAFFIC FLOW; TRAFFIC PATTERN;

TRAFFIC SIGNALS;

EID: 79951531308     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2193-13     Document Type: Article

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