Using VISSIM simulation model and Surrogate Safety Assessment Model for estimating field measured traffic conflicts at freeway merge areas

IET Intelligent Transport Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 68-77

  Fan, Rong ^a   Yu, Hao ^a   Liu, Pan ^a   Wang, Wei ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION PROCEDURE; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; REAR-END CONFLICT; SAFETY ASSESSMENTS; SIMULATION MODEL; SPEARMAN RANK CORRELATION; TRAFFIC CONFLICTS; TWO-STAGE PROCEDURES;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAFETY ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84879399101     PISSN: 1751956X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-its.2011.0232     Document Type: Article

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