Comparing safety performance measures obtained from video capture data

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 137, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 481-491

  Guido, Giuseppe ^a   Saccomanno, Frank ^b   Vitale, Alessandro ^a   Astarita, Vittorio ^a   Festa, Demetrio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Comparative studies; Data analysis; Highways and roads; Intersections; Italy; Traffic safety

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; CRASH POTENTIAL; DECELERATION RATE; GEOMETRIC FEATURE; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; HIGHWAYS AND ROADS; ITALY; SAFETY PERFORMANCE; SAFETY PROBLEMS; STOPPING DISTANCE; TIME-TO-COLLISION; TRAFFIC CONDITIONS; TRAFFIC OPERATION; TRAFFIC SAFETY; URBAN ROUNDABOUTS; VEHICLE INTERACTIONS; VIDEO CAPTURE;

DATA REDUCTION; VIDEO RECORDING;

TRAFFIC CONTROL;

PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; ROAD TRANSPORT; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM;

CALABRIA; COSENZA; ITALY;

EID: 79960128970     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)TE.1943-5436.0000230     Document Type: Article

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