Investigating the relationship between run-off-the-road crash frequency and traffic flow through different functional forms

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 63, Issue , 2014, Pages 121-132

  Roque, Carlos ^a   Cardoso, João Lourenço ^a  

^a NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR CIVIL ENGINEERING   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Confidence intervals; Crash prediction models; Functional form; Run off the road crash

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS; ROADS AND STREETS;

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COVARIATES; CRASH PREDICTION; FUNCTIONAL FORMS; HIGHWAY SAFETY; ROAD CRASH; ROAD SAFETY; TRAFFIC FLOW;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CAR DRIVING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CRASH PREDICTION MODELS; FUNCTIONAL FORM; HUMAN; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RUN-OFF-THE-ROAD CRASH; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CRASH PREDICTION MODELS; FUNCTIONAL FORM; RUN-OFF-THE-ROAD CRASH;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84888876709     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2013.10.034     Document Type: Article

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