Quality of traffic flow on urban arterial streets and its relationship with safety

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1610-1616

  Dixit, Vinayak V ^a   Pande, Anurag ^b   Abdel Aty, Mohamed ^c   Das, Abhishek ^c   Radwan, Essam ^c  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arterials; Driver behavior; Surrogate safety measures; Two fluid model

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL STREET; ARTERIALS; CRASH RATE; DRIVER BEHAVIOR; FREE FLOW; MODEL PARAMETERS; ORLANDO; ROADWAY CHARACTERISTICS; ROADWAY NETWORKS; RUNNING SPEED; SURROGATE SAFETY MEASURES; TRAFFIC FLOW; TRAFFIC SAFETY; TRAVEL TIME; TWO FLUID MODEL; TWO PARAMETER; TWO-FLUID; URBAN CORRIDORS; VEHICULAR TRAFFIC FLOW;

FLUIDS; PLASMA FLOW; VEHICLES;

TRAFFIC CONTROL;

ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; CITY; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SAFETY; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CITIES; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SAFETY;

EID: 79958239862     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2011.01.006     Document Type: Article

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