Development of adjustment functions to assess combined safety effects of multiple treatments on rural two-lane roadways

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 75, Issue , 2015, Pages 310-319

  Park, Juneyoung ^a   Abdel Aty, Mohamed ^a  

^a University of Central Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjustment factors and functions; Combining method; Crash modification factors and functions; Empirical Bayes; Highway Safety Manual; Multiple treatments; Safety effectiveness

Indexed keywords

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; HIGHWAY MARKINGS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADJUSTMENT FACTORS; COMBINING METHOD; EMPIRICAL BAYES; HIGHWAY SAFETY; MODIFICATION FACTORS; MULTIPLE TREATMENTS;

FUNCTION EVALUATION;

BAYES THEOREM; CAR DRIVING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; HUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PSYCHOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION; SAFETY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; BAYES THEOREM; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; FLORIDA; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; RURAL POPULATION; SAFETY;

EID: 84919789478     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2014.12.012     Document Type: Article

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