Analysing freeway traffic-incident duration using an Australian data set

Road and Transport Research

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 19-31

  Hojati, Ahmad Tavassoli ^a   Ferreira, Luis ^a   Charles, Phil ^a   Kabit, Mohamad Raduan Bin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELAY MODELS; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; INCIDENT DURATION; LOG-LOGISTIC DISTRIBUTION; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RELIABILITY MODELLING; SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES; SIGNIFICANT VARIABLES;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

EID: 84872394897     PISSN: 10375783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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