Pedestrian gap acceptance for mid-block street crossing

Transportation Planning and Technology

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 450-462

  Yannis, G ^a   Papadimitriou, E ^a   Theofilatos, A ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

binary logistic regression; gap acceptance; lognormal regression; mid block crossing; pedestrian

Indexed keywords

BINARY LOGISTIC REGRESSION; BINARY LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELS; GAP ACCEPTANCE; ILLEGAL PARKING; LOG-NORMAL; PEDESTRIAN; REGRESSION MODEL; TRAFFIC CONDITIONS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VEHICLES; VIDEO RECORDING;

PEDESTRIAN SAFETY;

PEDESTRIAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; URBAN AREA; URBAN TRANSPORT;

ATHENS [ATTICA]; ATTICA; GREECE;

EID: 84882251284     PISSN: 03081060     EISSN: 10290354     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03081060.2013.818274     Document Type: Article

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