A study of factors affecting highway accident rates using the random-parameters tobit model

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 45, Issue , 2012, Pages 628-633

  Anastasopoulos, Panagiotis Ch ^a   Mannering, Fred L ^a   Shankar, Venky N ^b   Haddock, John E ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Accident rates; Interstate highways; Pavement condition; Random parameters; Roadway geometrics; Tobit regression

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT RATE; INTERSTATE HIGHWAY; PAVEMENT CONDITION; RANDOM PARAMETERS; ROADWAY GEOMETRICS; TOBIT REGRESSION;

HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PAVEMENTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; HUMAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; INDIANA; LOGISTIC MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84856104751     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2011.09.015     Document Type: Article

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