Integrated traffic conflict model for estimating crash modification factors

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 71, Issue , 2014, Pages 228-235

  Shahdah, Usama ^a   Saccomanno, Frank ^a   Persaud, Bhagwant ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conflicts; Crash modification factors; SSAM; Time to Collision (TTC); Traffic simulation; VISSIM

Indexed keywords

HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; STREET TRAFFIC CONTROL;

CONFLICTS; MODIFICATION FACTORS; SSAM; TIME-TO-COLLISION; TRAFFIC SIMULATIONS; VISSIM;

TRAFFIC SIGNALS;

BAYES THEOREM; CANADA; CAR DRIVING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; HUMAN; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ONTARIO; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84903212400     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2014.05.019     Document Type: Article

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