Modeling highway safety and simulation in rainy weather

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2237, 2011, Pages 134-143

  Jung, Soyoung ^a,d   Qin, Xiao ^b   Noyce, David A ^c  

^a University of Seoul   (South Korea)

^b South Dakota State University   (United States)

^c Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

^d Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION; HIGHWAY PLANNING; RAIN;

CRASH FREQUENCY; CRASH SEVERITY; DECELERATION RATE; DESIRED SPEED; HIGHWAY SAFETY; RATE FUNCTIONS; SAFETY IMPACT; SPEED DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTIC MODELING; TRAFFIC OPERATION;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84856660451     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2237-15     Document Type: Article

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