Investigating the associations between road network structure and non-motorist accidents

Journal of Transport Geography

Volumn 42, Issue , 2015, Pages 34-47

  Zhang, Yuanyuan ^a   Bigham, John ^a   Ragland, David ^a   Chen, Xiaohong ^b  

^a Berkeley   (United States)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Average geodesic distance; Network betweenness centrality; Non motorist traffic safety; Overall clustering coefficient; Road network structure

Indexed keywords

CYCLE TRANSPORT; NETWORK ANALYSIS; PEDESTRIAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROAD TRANSPORT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY; WALKING;

ALAMEDA COUNTY; CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84918574598     PISSN: 09666923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2014.10.010     Document Type: Article

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