Prioritizing highway safety improvement projects: A multi-criteria model and case study with SafetyAnalyst

Safety Science

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1085-1092

  Yu, Jie ^a   Liu, Yue ^b  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b University of Wisconsin Milwaukee   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytical hierarchy process; Fuzzy logic; Highway safety; Multi criteria approach; Nonlinear optimization

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; BUDGET CONSTRAINT; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; DECISION MAKERS; EFFECTIVE TOOL; HIGHWAY SAFETY; MODEL INPUTS; MODELING FEATURES; MULTI-CRITERIA APPROACH; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING PROBLEMS; MULTI-CRITERIA MODEL; NON-LINEAR OPTIMIZATION; PAIR-WISE COMPARISON; PROJECT SELECTION; RANKING METHODS; SAFETY IMPROVEMENT; SELECTION CRITERIA; SOCIAL IMPACT; SPECIFIC SITES; VAGUENESS AND UNCERTAINTY; WEIGHT ESTIMATION;

FUZZY LOGIC; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION;

HIGHWAY ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HIGHWAY; INVESTMENT; MULTI CRITERIA MODEL; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC SAFETY;

EID: 84856468341     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: 18791042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2011.11.018     Document Type: Article

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