Safety impacts of signal-warning flashers and speed control at high-speed signalized intersections

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 54, Issue , 2013, Pages 90-98

  Wu, Zifeng ^a   Sharma, Anuj ^a   Mannering, Fred L ^b   Wang, Shefang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crash frequency; Crash severity; High speed signalized intersection; Model; Nested logit model; Random parameter negative binomial; Signal warning flashers; Speed limit reduction

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; MODELS; SPEED CONTROL; TRAFFIC SIGNALS;

CRASH FREQUENCY; CRASH SEVERITY; HIGH SPEED SIGNALIZED INTERSECTIONS; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL; NESTED LOGIT MODEL; SPEED LIMIT REDUCTION;

SPEED;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CAR DRIVING; EQUIPMENT; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SAFETY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEBRASKA; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SAFETY; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84879294218     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2013.01.016     Document Type: Article

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