Assessment of Expressway Traffic Safety Using Gaussian Mixture Model based on Time to Collision

International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1122-1130

  Jin, Sheng ^a   Qu, Xiaobo ^b   Wang, Dianhai ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Expressway traffic safety; Gaussian mixture model; Time to collision

Indexed keywords

DANGEROUS SITUATIONS; DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; GOODNESS-OF-FIT TEST; NOVEL CONCEPT; TIME TO COLLISION; TRAFFIC CONDITIONS; TRAFFIC CONFLICTS; TRAFFIC SAFETY; TRAFFIC VIDEOS; TRAFFIC VOLUMES; URBAN EXPRESSWAY;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION;

TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 84860862005     PISSN: 18756891     EISSN: 18756883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/18756891.2011.9727860     Document Type: Article

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