Quality control of road project: Identification and validation of a safety indicator

Advances in Transportation Studies

Volumn , Issue 9, 2006, Pages 47-66

  Calvi, A ^a,b   D'Amico, F ^a,b  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b CRISS Inter Universities Research Centre for Road Safety ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Accident prediction; Driving simulation; Human factor; Project quality; Road safety; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREDICTION; CORRELATION PARAMETERS; DRIVER'S BEHAVIOR; DRIVING SIMULATION; MODEL GENERALIZATION; PROJECT QUALITY; ROAD INFRASTRUCTURES; ROAD SAFETY;

ACCIDENTS; GEOMETRY; HUMAN ENGINEERING; TRAJECTORIES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ROADS AND STREETS;

EID: 84255175320     PISSN: 18245463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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