Use of crash surrogates and exceedance statistics to estimate road safety

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 45, Issue , 2012, Pages 230-240

  Tarko, Andrew P ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuum of traffic events; Crash causality; Generalized Pareto distribution; Safety modeling; Surrogate events; Traffic conflicts

Indexed keywords

CRASH CAUSALITY; GENERALIZED PARETO DISTRIBUTIONS; SURROGATE EVENTS; TRAFFIC CONFLICTS; TRAFFIC EVENT;

ROADS AND STREETS; SAFETY FACTOR;

ESTIMATION;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMECHANICS; CAR DRIVING; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; SAFETY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VIDEORECORDING;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; BIOMECHANICS; CAUSALITY; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK-TAKING; SAFETY; SOFTWARE; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84856108231     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2011.07.008     Document Type: Article

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