Assessing the transferability of the highway safety manual predictive method for urban roads in Fortaleza City, Brazil

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Cunto, Flávio ^a   Sobreira, Lucas ^a   Ferreira, Sara ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Crash modification factors; Highway safety manual; Observational studies; Safety performance functions

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; SAFETY ENGINEERING; TRANSPORTATION;

CALIBRATION FACTORS; DECADE OF ACTION FOR ROAD SAFETIES; HIGHWAY SAFETY; MODIFICATION FACTORS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; SAFETY PERFORMANCE FUNCTION; SAFETY PROFESSIONALS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

CALIBRATION; MODEL VALIDATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; ROAD TRANSPORT; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY; URBAN TRANSPORT;

BRAZIL; CEARA; FORTALEZA;

EID: 84921048152     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)TE.1943-5436.0000734     Document Type: Article

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