Assessment of interaction of crash occurrence, mountainous freeway geometry, real-time weather, and traffic data

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2280, 2012, Pages 51-59

  Ahmed, Mohamed ^a   Abdel Aty, Mohamed ^a   Yu, Rongjie ^a  

^a University of Central Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; ADVANCED TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; GEOMETRY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

ACTIVE TRAFFIC MANAGEMENTS; BAYESIAN; GEOMETRIC FEATURE; LOGISTICS REGRESSIONS; MOUNTAINOUS FREEWAY; REAL- TIME; REGRESSION TECHNIQUES; ROADWAY GEOMETRICS; TRAFFIC DATA; WEATHER DATA;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84878469952     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2280-06     Document Type: Article

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