Urban road planning: A safety perspective

ICTIS 2011: Multimodal Approach to Sustained Transportation System Development - Information, Technology, Implementation - Proceedings of the 1st Int. Conf. on Transportation Information and Safety

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 622-628

  Ferreira, Sara ^a   Couto, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Highways and roads; Traffic safety; Urban areas

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT DATA; ACCIDENT RISKS; CONTROL VARIABLE; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; HIGHWAYS AND ROADS; LINEAR MODELING; PLANNING PROCESS; PLANNING STAGES; PORTUGAL; ROAD PLANNING; SAFETY ANALYSIS; SEGMENT LENGTHS; TIME TRENDS; TRAFFIC FLOW; TRAFFIC SAFETY; URBAN AREAS; URBAN NETWORKS; URBAN ROAD;

ACCIDENTS; HIGHWAY PLANNING; LAND USE; ROADS AND STREETS; SECURITY OF DATA; TRANSPORTATION; URBAN PLANNING;

STREET TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 80052401801     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/41177(415)79     Document Type: Conference Paper

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