A review of the effect of traffic and weather characteristics on road safety

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 72, Issue , 2014, Pages 244-256

  Theofilatos, Athanasios ^a   Yannis, George ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Real time data; Road safety; Traffic characteristics; Weather characteristics

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ACCIDENTS; ROADS AND STREETS; WIND;

ACCIDENT FREQUENCY; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; NON-LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; REAL-TIME DATA; REAL-TIME TRAFFIC DATUM; ROAD SAFETY; TRAFFIC CHARACTERISTICS; WEATHER PARAMETERS;

MOTOR TRANSPORTATION;

CAR DRIVING; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; SAFETY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; WEATHER;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; SAFETY; WEATHER;

EID: 84905382632     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2014.06.017     Document Type: Article

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