Estimation of rear-end vehicle crash frequencies in urban road tunnels

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 48, Issue , 2012, Pages 254-263

  Meng, Qiang ^a   Qu, Xiaobo ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Inverse Gaussian regression model; Rear end crash frequency; Road tunnels; Time to collision

Indexed keywords

CONTRIBUTING FACTOR; INVERSE GAUSSIAN; INVERSE GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; LIMITED DATA; MEAN SOJOURN TIME; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL REGRESSION MODEL; REAR-END CRASHES; ROAD TUNNEL; SINGAPORE; TIME TO COLLISION; TIME-PERIODS; TRAFFIC CONFLICTS; TUNNEL FIRES; URBAN ROAD; VEHICLE CRASHES;

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROADS AND STREETS; VEHICLES;

ACCIDENTS;

ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CITY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SINGAPORE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TIME; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VIDEORECORDING;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CITIES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SINGAPORE; TIME FACTORS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84861871313     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2012.01.025     Document Type: Article

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