Relationship between freeway flow parameters and safety and its implications for hard shoulder running

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2280, 2012, Pages 10-17

  Kononov, Jake ^a,b   Hersey, Steven ^a   Reeves, David ^a   Allery, Bryan ^a,b  

^a State of Colorado   (United States)

^b DiExSys LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

ACCIDENT RATE; CRASH RATE; FLOW PARAMETERS; HARD SHOULDER; NUMBER OF LANES; PEAK PERIOD; RATE INCREASE; ROAD BUILDING; TRAFFIC ENGINEER; TRAFFIC FLOW;

TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

EID: 84888875439     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2280-02     Document Type: Article

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