Methodological application of system dynamics for evaluating traffic safety policy

Safety Science

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1594-1605

  Goh, Yang Miang ^a   Love, Peter E D ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Experimentation; Simulation; System dynamics; Traffic safety policy

Indexed keywords

CAUSAL LOOP DIAGRAMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION; DYNAMIC COMPLEXITY; EXPERIMENTATION; INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT; MESO LEVEL ANALYSIS; MICRO LEVEL; POLICY OPTIONS; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; ROAD TRAFFIC; ROAD TRANSPORT SYSTEMS; ROAD TRANSPORTS; SAFETY ISSUES; SAFETY RATINGS; SIMULATION; SOCIAL SYSTEMS; SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS; SYSTEM DYNAMICS; TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES; TRAFFIC SAFETY;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PURCHASING; SYSTEM THEORY; WATER RESOURCES;

TRAFFIC CONTROL;

ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DYNAMICS; MOTORIZED TRANSPORT; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DESIGN; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROCESS MODEL; RISK REDUCTION; STRATEGIC PLANNING; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; SYSTEM DYNAMICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAFFIC SAFETY;

EID: 84860842279     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: 18791042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2012.03.002     Document Type: Article

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