Developing local safety performance functions versus calculating calibration factors for SafetyAnalyst applications: A Florida case study

Safety Science

Volumn 65, Issue , 2014, Pages 93-105

  Lu, Jinyan ^a   Haleem, Kirolos ^b   Alluri, Priyanka ^b   Gan, Albert ^b   Liu, Kaiyu ^b  

^a HBC Engineering Company   (United States)

^b Florida International University   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration factors; Crash prediction; Freeway interchange influence areas; Safety performance functions; SafetyAnalyst

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893674043     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: 18791042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2014.01.004     Document Type: Article

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