Association between roadway intersection characteristics and pedestrian crash risk in Alameda County, California

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2198, 2010, Pages 41-51

  Schneider, Robert J ^a   Diogenes, Mara Chagas ^b   Arnold, Lindsay S ^a   Attaset, Vanvisa ^a   Griswold, Julia ^a   Ragland, David R ^a  

^a Berkeley   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL VEHICLES; PEDESTRIAN SAFETY;

CALIFORNIA; CRASH DATA; CRASH RATE; CRASH RISK; MOTOR VEHICLE; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL REGRESSION; PEDESTRIAN CRASHES; STATISTIC MODELING; TRAFFIC CRASHES; VOLUME ESTIMATES;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 79951542011     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2198-06     Document Type: Article

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