Accident prediction models for winter road safety: Does temporal aggregation of data matter?

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2237, 2011, Pages 144-151

  Usman, Taimur ^a   Fu, Liping ^a   Miranda Moreno, Luis F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AGGREGATES; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; ROADS AND STREETS;

ACCIDENT DATA; ACCIDENT PREDICTION MODEL; AGGREGATE DATUM; COUNT DATA MODELING; DATA AGGREGATION; DISPERSION PARAMETERS; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL MODELS; ROAD SAFETY; SINGLE LEVEL; TEMPORAL AGGREGATION;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84856656527     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2237-16     Document Type: Article

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