Climate change modeling and the weather-related road accidents in Canada

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

Volumn 32, Issue , 2014, Pages 171-183

  Amin, Md Shohel Reza ^a   Zareie, Alireza ^b   Amador Jiménez, Luis E ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accident severity; Climate change; Global Climate Model; Negative Binomial Regression; Poisson regression; Statistical downscaling

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; CLIMATE MODELS; CRASHWORTHINESS; HAZARDS; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; METEOROLOGY; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROADS AND STREETS; TRANSPORTATION;

ACCIDENT SEVERITY; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL REGRESSION; POISSON REGRESSION; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ACCIDENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROAD TRANSPORT; SEVERE WEATHER; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY; CLIMATE EFFECT; GLOBAL CLIMATE;

CANADA; NEW BRUNSWICK;

EID: 84906512795     PISSN: 13619209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trd.2014.07.012     Document Type: Article

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