Outline for a causal model of traffic conflicts and crashes

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1907-1919

  Davis, Gary A ^a   Hourdos, John ^a   Xiong, Hui ^a   Chatterjee, Indrajit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal models; Surrogate measures; Traffic conflicts

Indexed keywords

CAUSAL ANALYSIS; CAUSAL MODEL; INITIATING EVENTS; ROAD CRASH; SAFETY DEFICIENCIES; SURROGATE MEASURES; TRAFFIC CONFLICTS; TRAJECTORY-BASED; TRUNCATED PROBABILITY;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

PROBABILITY;

ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CAUSALITY; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 79961167293     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2011.05.001     Document Type: Article

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