Mining the characteristics of secondary crashes on highways

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 140, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Yang, Hong ^a   Bartin, Bekir ^b   Ozbay, Kaan ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ALTINBAS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Crash characteristics; Data mining; Freeway; Highway; Safety; Secondary crash; Sensor data

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; DATA MINING; ELECTRONIC CRIME COUNTERMEASURES; HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; SENSORS; TRANSPORTATION;

CRASH CHARACTERISTICS; HIGH RESOLUTION SENSORS; HIGHWAY; INCIDENT MANAGEMENT; SECONDARY CRASH; SENSOR DATA; SPATIOTEMPORAL DISTRIBUTIONS; TRANSPORTATION AGENCIES;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; COLLISION; DATA MINING; MOTORWAY; SENSOR; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY;

NEW JERSEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84896292908     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)TE.1943-5436.0000646     Document Type: Article

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