Safety impacts of design exceptions on nonfreeway segments

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2358, 2013, Pages 29-37

  Wood, Jonathan S ^a   Porter, Richard J ^a  

^a University of Utah   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGHWAY PLANNING; ROADS AND STREETS;

CRASH FREQUENCY; CRASH SEVERITY; MODELING APPROACH; MULTINOMIAL LOGIT MODEL; MULTIPLE DATA SOURCES; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL REGRESSION MODEL; PROPENSITY SCORE; REGRESSION MODELLING; ROAD SEGMENTS; SAFETY IMPACT;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84887502309     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2358-04     Document Type: Article

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