Safety ranking of the Lithuanian road network of national significance

Baltic Journal of Road and Bridge Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 129-136

  Jasiüniene, Vilma ^a   Čygas, Donatas ^a   Ratkevičiüte, Kornelija ^a   Peltola, Harri ^b  

^a VILNIUS GEDIMINAS TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Accident rate; Homogenous road sections; Junctions; Ranking of high accident concentration sections; Road network safety ranking; Road safety

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865269165     PISSN: 1822427X     EISSN: 18224288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3846/bjrbe.2012.18     Document Type: Article

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