Identification of hazardous road locations of traffic accidents by means of kernel density estimation and cluster significance evaluation

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 55, Issue , 2013, Pages 265-273

  Bíl, Michal ^a   Andrášik, Richard ^a   Janoška, Zbyněk ^a  

^a CDV TRANSPORT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Clustering; Hazardous road locations; Kernel density estimation; Monte Carlo; Traffic accidents

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING; HAZARDOUS ROAD LOCATIONS; KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATION; KERNEL DENSITY FUNCTION; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; SIGNIFICANCE LEVELS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

MONTE CARLO METHODS; ROADS AND STREETS; STATISTICS;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CZECH REPUBLIC; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; ARTICLE; STATISTICS;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CZECH REPUBLIC; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD;

EID: 84876125485     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2013.03.003     Document Type: Article

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