Extending the Highway Safety Manual (HSM) framework for traffic safety performance evaluation

Safety Science

Volumn 64, Issue , 2014, Pages 146-154

  Venkataraman, Narayan S ^a   Ulfarsson, Gudmundur F ^a   Shankar, Venky N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Crash frequency analysis; Highway Safety Manual; Safety performance evaluation; Traffic safety

Indexed keywords

CRASH FREQUENCY; HIGHWAY SAFETY; ORGANIZATIONAL CONSTRAINTS; SAFETY EVALUATION METHODS; SAFETY PERFORMANCE; SAFETY PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; SAFETY PERFORMANCE FUNCTION; TRAFFIC SAFETY;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; HIGHWAY ENGINEERING;

GUARD RAILS;

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; EVALUATION STUDY; HIGHWAY SAFETY MANUAL FRAMEWORK; MEASUREMENT; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODEL; SYSTEMS THEORY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC SAFETY;

EID: 84891306519     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: 18791042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2013.12.001     Document Type: Review

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