Reconsidering the Safety in Numbers Effect for Vulnerable Road Users: An Application of Agent-Based Modeling

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 147-153

  Thompson, Jason ^a   Savino, Giovanni ^a,b   Stevenson, Mark ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

accident; agent based modeling; cycling; density; risk; safety in numbers

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYCLING; HUMAN; RISK; SAFETY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; BICYCLING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RISK; SAFETY; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84922323838     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2014.914626     Document Type: Article

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