Evaluation of the impacts of traffic states on crash risks on freeways

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 47, Issue , 2012, Pages 162-171

  Xu, Chengcheng ^a   Liu, Pan ^a   Wang, Wei ^a   Li, Zhibin ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Case control study; Crash risk; Discriminant analysis; K means clustering analysis; Traffic states

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDY; CRASH DATA; CRASH RISK; FREEWAY TRAFFIC; K-MEANS CLUSTERING; LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELS; LOOP DETECTOR; PRIMARY OBJECTIVE; REAL-TIME FREEWAY; SAFETY LEVEL; SAFETY PERFORMANCE; SPEED VARIANCE; TRAFFIC FLOW; TRAFFIC FLOW CHARACTERISTICS; TRAFFIC STATE; TRAFFIC STATES; VALIDATION RESULTS;

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; LOGISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STREET TRAFFIC CONTROL; TRAFFIC SURVEYS;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CAR DRIVING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; HUMAN; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862821492     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2012.01.020     Document Type: Article

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