Model of relationship between interstate crash occurrence and geometrics: Exploratory insights from random parameter negative binomial approach

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2236, 2011, Pages 41-48

  Venkataraman, Narayan S ^a   Ulfarsson, Gudmundur F ^a   Shankar, Venky ^b   Oh, Junseok ^b   Park, Minho ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; HIGHWAY ENGINEERING;

CRASH FREQUENCY; DEGREE OF CURVATURE; HORIZONTAL CURVES; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL MODELS; PARAMETERS CORRELATIONS; RANDOM PARAMETERS; TOTAL CRASHES; VERTICAL CURVE; WASHINGTON STATE;

LIGHTING;

EID: 84855252739     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2236-05     Document Type: Article

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