Effects of transverse rumble strips on safety of pedestrian crosswalks on rural roads in China

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1947-1954

  Liu, Pan ^a   Huang, Jia ^a   Wang, Wei ^a   Xu, Chengcheng ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Crash; Rural road; Safety; Speed; Transverse rumble strips

Indexed keywords

BEFORE-AFTER STUDY; COMPARISON GROUP; CRASH; CRASH DATA; CRASH FREQUENCY; PRIMARY OBJECTIVE; RESEARCH TEAMS; RUMBLE STRIPS; SPEED LIMIT; SPEED PROFILE; SPEED REDUCTION; VEHICLE SPEED;

DATA REDUCTION; RURAL ROADS; SPEED;

PEDESTRIAN SAFETY;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CAR DRIVING; CHINA; HUMAN; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; BAYES THEOREM; CHINA; HUMANS; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 79961173765     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2011.05.012     Document Type: Article

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