A note on hotspot identification for urban expressways

Safety Science

Volumn 66, Issue , 2014, Pages 87-91

  Qu, Xiaobo ^a   Meng, Qiang ^b  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Crash count; Expressways; Hotspots; Societal risk

Indexed keywords

CONSISTENCY ANALYSIS; CRASH COUNT; EMPIRICAL BAYESIAN METHOD; EXPRESSWAYS; HOTSPOTS; RISK-BASED METHODS; SOCIETAL RISKS; URBAN EXPRESSWAY;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPRESSWAY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEALTH SURVEY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SINGAPORE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; TRAFFIC SAFETY; URBAN AREA;

EID: 84896762427     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: 18791042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2014.02.006     Document Type: Article

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