The relationship between urban street networks and the number of transport fatalities at the city level

Safety Science

Volumn 62, Issue , 2014, Pages 114-120

  Moeinaddini, Mehdi ^a   Asadi Shekari, Zohreh ^a   Zaly Shah, Muhammad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Block density; City level; Crash fatality; Nodes per selected areas; Street network; Urban transportation safety

Indexed keywords

CITY LEVEL; CRASH FATALITY; NODES PER SELECTED AREAS; STREET NETWORK; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; HIGHWAY PLANNING; MASS TRANSPORTATION;

URBAN TRANSPORTATION;

ACCIDENT PRONENESS; ACCIDENTAL DEATH; ARTICLE; HUMAN; MOTORWAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAFFIC; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAFFIC SAFETY; URBAN AREA;

EID: 84884183147     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: 18791042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2013.08.015     Document Type: Article

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