Traffic Accidents on Expressways: New Threat to China

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 230-238

  Zhao, Jinbao ^a   Deng, Wei ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Expressway accidents; Large vehicles; Rear end collision; Speeding; Time and spatial distributions; Weather condition

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; HUMAN; INJURY; MORTALITY; MOTOR VEHICLE; SAFETY; STATISTICS; TIME; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; WEATHER;

ACCELERATION; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; CHINA; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MOTOR VEHICLES; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; TIME FACTORS; WEATHER; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84861598377     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2011.645959     Document Type: Article

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