Development of crash prediction models with individual vehicular data

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1353-1363

  Son, Hojun Daniel ^a   Kweon, Young Jun ^b   Park, Byungkyu Brian ^c  

^a Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION   (United States)

^c University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

Count data model; Crash analysis; Highway safety; Hurdle model; Surrogate measure

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; FORECASTING; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; INFORMATION USE; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

AGGREGATED TRAFFICS; CONTRIBUTING FACTOR; COUNT DATA MODELING; COUNT DATA MODELS; CRASH ANALYSIS; HIGHWAY SAFETY; SURROGATE MEASURES; TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING;

PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS;

NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY; TRANSPORTATION TECHNOLOGY;

UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

EID: 80052756023     PISSN: 0968090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2011.03.002     Document Type: Article

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