Calibration of highway safety manual safety performance function

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2279, 2012, Pages 82-89

  Brimley, Bradford ^a   Saito, Mitsuru ^b   Schultz, Grant ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Brigham Young University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILES; CALIBRATION; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANNUAL AVERAGE DAILY TRAFFICS; CALIBRATION FACTORS; CRASH DATA; HIGHWAY SAFETY; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL REGRESSION; PAPER DOCUMENTS; SAFETY PERFORMANCE FUNCTION; SEGMENT LENGTHS; SPEED LIMIT; TWO LANE TWO WAYS;

TRUCKS;

EID: 84869148639     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2279-10     Document Type: Article

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