Using a k-means clustering algorithm to examine patterns of vehicle crashes in before-after analysis

Modern Applied Science

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 11-19

  Mauro, Raffaele ^a   De Luca, Mario ^b   Dell'Acqua, Gianluca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

After before analysis; Cluster analysis; Planning; Road safety

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885162638     PISSN: 19131844     EISSN: 19131852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5539/mas.v7n10p11     Document Type: Article

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