Traffic flow-accidents relationship for urban intersections on the basis of the translog function

Safety Science

Volumn 60, Issue , 2013, Pages 115-122

  Ferreira, Sara ^a   Couto, António ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Elasticity; Negative binomial; Random effects model; Translog function; Urban intersections

Indexed keywords

NEGATIVE BINOMIAL; PANEL COUNT DATUM; PREDICTIVE MODELS; RANDOM EFFECTS MODEL; SIGNALIZED INTERSECTION; TRAFFIC MOVEMENTS; TRANSLOG; URBAN INTERSECTIONS;

ACCIDENTS; ELASTICITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; TRAFFIC SURVEYS;

TRAFFIC CONTROL;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LINEAR SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAFFIC SAFETY; TRANSLOG FUNCTION; URBAN AREA;

EID: 84881113442     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: 18791042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2013.07.007     Document Type: Article

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