Evaluating the effects of freeway design elements on safety

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2195, 2010, Pages 58-69

  Park, Byung Jung ^a   Fitzpatrick, Kay ^b   Lord, Dominique ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

DENSITY CURVES; DESIGN AND OPERATIONS; DESIGN ELEMENTS; FREEWAY CRASHES; GEOMETRIC DESIGN ELEMENTS; HIGHWAY SAFETY; HORIZONTAL CURVES; MAKING DECISION; ON-RAMP; PLANNING DESIGNS;

HIGHWAY PLANNING;

EID: 79951546688     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2195-07     Document Type: Article

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