An analysis of traffic incidents on an Australian urban road network

ATRF 2011 - 34th Australasian Transport Research Forum

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Hojati, Ahmad Tavassoli ^a   Charles, Phil ^a   Ferreira, Luis ^a   Kabit, Mohamad Raduan Bin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DATA MINING; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; ROADS AND STREETS; TRANSPORTATION;

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTS; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; INCIDENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; INTERNATIONAL RESEARCHES; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; ROAD NETWORK OPERATIONS; TRAFFIC ENVIRONMENT;

TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

EID: 84916897520     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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