Modeling the effects of weather and traffic on the risk of secondary incidents

Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems: Technology, Planning, and Operations

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 109-117

  Vlahogianni, Eleni I ^a   Karlaftis, Matthew G ^a   Orfanou, Foteini P ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Logit; Mutual information; Neural networks; Partial derivatives; Rainfall; Secondary incidents; Traffic flow

Indexed keywords

LOGIT; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; PARTIAL DERIVATIVES; SECONDARY INCIDENTS; TRAFFIC FLOW;

NEURAL NETWORKS; RAIN; SPEED;

ACCIDENTS;

ACCIDENT; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; GEOMETRY; LOGIT ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM; VOLUME;

EID: 84867149267     PISSN: 15472450     EISSN: 15472442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15472450.2012.688384     Document Type: Review

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