Introducing roadside hazard severity indicator based on evidential reasoning approach

Safety Science

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1618-1626

  Ayati, Esmaeel ^a   Pirayesh Neghab, Mohammad ali ^a   Sadeghi, Ali asghar ^a   Mohammadzadeh Moghaddam, Abolfazl ^a  

^a FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

Author keywords

Evidential reasoning; Prioritization; Road safety; Roadside hazard severity indicator

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT SEVERITY; CRASH DATA; CRASH SEVERITY; EVIDENTIAL REASONING; EVIDENTIAL REASONING APPROACHES; HAZARDOUSNESS; PREDICTION MODEL; PRIORITIZATION; ROAD SAFETY; ROAD SEGMENTS; SAFETY ASSESSMENTS; SAFETY EXPERTS; SAFETY INDICATOR; UTILITY FUNCTIONS;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ACCIDENTS; HAZARDS; HIGHWAY PLANNING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROADSIDES;

TRAFFIC SIGNS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PREDICTION; DECISION MAKING; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; EVIDENTIAL REASONING; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; INJURY SEVERITY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STRATEGIC PLANNING; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAFFIC SAFETY;

EID: 84860860446     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: 18791042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2012.03.023     Document Type: Article

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