Safety performance functions using traffic conflicts

Safety Science

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 160-164

  El Basyouny, Karim ^a   Sayed, Tarek ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Maximum likelihood estimation; Negative binomial regression; Poisson gamma hierarchy; Traffic conflicts; Two phase nested models

Indexed keywords

BRITISH COLUMBIA; COLLISION FREQUENCY; COVARIATES; DATA SETS; FAILURE MECHANISM; GOODNESS-OF-FIT MEASURE; LOG-NORMAL MODEL; MODERATING EFFECT; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL REGRESSION; POISSON-GAMMA HIERARCHY; SAFETY ANALYSIS; SAFETY PERFORMANCE FUNCTION; SECOND PHASE; SIGNALIZED INTERSECTION; SOCIAL COST; TRAFFIC CONFLICTS; TRAFFIC VOLUMES; TWO-PHASE MODEL;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

SAFETY ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBURBAN AREA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; TRAFFIC CONFLICT; TRAFFIC SAFETY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865432744     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: 18791042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2012.04.015     Document Type: Article

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