Safety evaluation of joint and conventional lane merge configurations for freeway work zones

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 199-208

  Ishak, Sherif ^a   Qi, Yan ^b   Rayaprolu, Pradeep ^c  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Charles A Manganaro Consulting Engineers   (United States)

Author keywords

Conventional merge; Crash analysis; Joint merge; Lane merge; Safety; Work zones

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; INJURY; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; SAFETY; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; LOUISIANA; SAFETY; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84859602896     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2011.644606     Document Type: Article

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