Categorical Modeling to Evaluate Road Safety at the Planning Level

Journal of Transportation Safety and Security

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 308-322

  Ferreira, Sara ^a   Couto, António ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

ordered probit; risk; road safety; transportation planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867556859     PISSN: 19439962     EISSN: 19439970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19439962.2012.679385     Document Type: Article

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