Clustering-Based Roadway Segment Division for the Identification of High-Crash Locations

Journal of Transportation Safety and Security

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 224-239

  Lu, Jinyan ^a   Gan, Albert ^a   Haleem, Kirolos ^a   Wu, Wanyang ^a  

^a Florida International University   (United States)

Author keywords

clustering method; empirical Bayes; high crash locations; network screening; safety performance function; segment division

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878160647     PISSN: 19439962     EISSN: 19439970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19439962.2012.730118     Document Type: Article

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