Safety effectiveness of super 2 highways in Texas

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2280, 2012, Pages 38-50

  Park, Byung Jung ^a,b   Fitzpatrick, Kay ^a   Brewer, Marcus ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM   (United States)

^b Korea Transport Institute (KOTI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

BEFORE-AFTER-STUDIES; CORPUS CHRISTI; CRASH HISTORY; EMPIRICAL BAYES METHOD; MODEL SELECTION; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL REGRESSION MODEL; REFERENCE GROUP; REGRESSION TO THE MEANS; SAFETY PERFORMANCE FUNCTION; STUDY SITES;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84892391141     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2280-05     Document Type: Article

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