Developing crash modification functions to assess safety effects of adding bike lanes for urban arterials with different roadway and socio-economic characteristics

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 74, Issue , 2015, Pages 179-191

  Park, Juneyoung ^a   Abdel Aty, Mohamed ^a   Lee, Jaeyoung ^a   Lee, Chris ^b  

^a University of Central Florida   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adding a bike lane; Before after method; Crash modification factors; Heterogeneous effect; Safety effectiveness; Simple and full crash modification functions

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; POPULATION STATISTICS;

ADDING A BIKE LANE; ANNUAL AVERAGE DAILY TRAFFICS; BEFORE-AFTER METHOD; CROSS-SECTIONAL METHODS; HETEROGENEOUS EFFECTS; MODIFICATION FACTORS; POPULATION DENSITIES; ROADWAY CHARACTERISTICS;

BICYCLES;

BAYES THEOREM; CAR DRIVING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CYCLING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAFETY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; BAYES THEOREM; BICYCLING; CONTROLLED BEFORE-AFTER STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; FLORIDA; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAFETY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84909993196     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2014.10.024     Document Type: Article

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