Methodology to develop crash modification functions for road safety treatments with fully specified and hierarchical models

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 70, Issue , 2014, Pages 131-139

  Chen, Yongsheng ^a   Persaud, Bhagwant ^b  

^a CITY OF EDMONTON   (Canada)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crash modification function; Crash prediction; Hierarchical model; Safety performance function

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; HIGHWAY PLANNING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

CRASH PREDICTION; HIERARCHICAL MODEL; MODIFICATION FACTORS; MULTIPLICATIVE FACTORS; QUANTITATIVE APPROACH; RELATED VARIABLES; SAFETY PERFORMANCE; SAFETY PERFORMANCE FUNCTION;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

CANADA; CITY; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; SAFETY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; CANADA; CITIES; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SAFETY;

EID: 84898458092     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2014.03.012     Document Type: Article

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