Comparing the road safety of neighbourhood development patterns: Traditional versus sustainable communities

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 35-45

  Sun, James ^a   Lovegrove, Gord ^b  

^a WSP   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

3 way offset; Community based macro level collision prediction models; Fused grid; Neighbourhood road network; Road safety planning

Indexed keywords

3-WAY OFFSET; COLLISION PREDICTION MODEL; FUSED GRID; ROAD NETWORK; ROAD SAFETY;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RESEARCH;

MOTOR TRANSPORTATION;

COLLISION; COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; NEIGHBORHOOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; ROAD TRANSPORT; SAFETY; SUSTAINABILITY;

AUSTRALIA; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; OTTAWA; VANCOUVER; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

EID: 84873960201     PISSN: 03151468     EISSN: 12086029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/cjce-2012-0002     Document Type: Article

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