Influence of curbs on traffic crash frequency on high-speed roadways

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 412-421

  Jiang, Ximiao ^a   Yan, Xuedong ^b   Huang, Baoshan ^a   Richards, Stephen H ^a  

^a University of Tennessee   (United States)

^b BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Crash frequency; Crash rate; Curbed outside shoulder; High speed; Kruskal Wallis test; Zero inflated negative binomial (ZINB)

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; SAFETY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCELERATION; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; ILLINOIS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SAFETY;

EID: 79961226762     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2011.578285     Document Type: Article

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