Comparison of sichel and negative binomial models in hot spot identification

Transportation Research Record

Volumn 2460, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 107-116

  Wu, Lingtao ^a,b   Zou, Yajie ^c   Lord, Dominique ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF HIGHWAY MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT   (China)

^c University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM COMPOUNDS; HIGHWAY PLANNING;

BAYESIAN ESTIMATE; CRASH PREDICTION; CRITICAL COMPONENT; EMPIRICAL BAYESIAN; EMPIRICAL BAYESIAN METHOD; HIGHWAY SAFETY; HOT SPOT IDENTIFICATION; HOTSPOTS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL MODELS;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

EID: 84924882705     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: 21694052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2460-12     Document Type: Article

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