Analysis of the traffic injury severity on two-lane, two-way rural roads based on classification tree models

Safety Science

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1314-1320

  Kashani, Ali Tavakoli ^a   Mohaymany, Afshin Shariat ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Classification and regression trees (CART); Data mining; Injury severity; Rural roads

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF THE TRAFFIC; CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREE; CLASSIFICATION TREE MODEL; CRASH INJURY SEVERITY; INJURY SEVERITY; PREDICTION ACCURACY; PREDICTION MODEL; SEAT BELT; SEVERITY OF INJURIES; TRAFFIC CRASHES; TWO-LANE;

DATA MINING; FORECASTING; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANT EXTRACTS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

RURAL ROADS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DECISION TREE; DISEASE SEVERITY; IRAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SEATBELT; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

EID: 79960987433     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: 18791042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2011.04.019     Document Type: Article

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