On factors related to car accidents on German Autobahn connectors

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1864-1871

  Garnowski, Martin ^a   Manner, Hans ^b  

^a Indian Subcontinent and Africa   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accident causes; German Autobahn; Highway connectors; Negative binomial regression; Random parameters

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT CAUSE; GERMAN AUTOBAHN; HIGHWAY CONNECTORS; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL REGRESSION; RANDOM PARAMETERS;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; GERMANY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; GERMANY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 79958211807     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2011.04.026     Document Type: Article

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