Benefits of small municipalities using jurisdiction-specific safety performance functions rather than the Highway safety Manual's calibrated or uncalibrated safety performance functions

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 517-527

  Young, Jason ^a   Park, Peter Y ^b  

^a CITY OF SASKATOON   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Goodness of fit test; Highway safety manual; Intersection safety; Road safety; Safety performance functions

Indexed keywords

GOODNESS-OF-FIT TEST; HIGHWAY SAFETY; INTERSECTION SAFETY; ROAD SAFETY; SAFETY PERFORMANCE FUNCTION;

HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

SAFETY ENGINEERING;

CALIBRATION; COLLISION; DATA SET; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY;

CANADA; REGINA; SASKATCHEWAN;

EID: 84878837733     PISSN: 03151468     EISSN: 12086029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/cjce-2012-0501     Document Type: Article

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