Assessment of safety effects for widening urban roadways in developing crash modification functions using nonlinearizing link functions

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 79, Issue , 2015, Pages 80-87

  Park, Juneyoung ^a   Abdel Aty, Mohamed ^a   Wang, Jung Han ^a   Lee, Chris ^b  

^a University of Central Florida   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian regression; Crash modification factors and functions; Nonlinearinzing link function; Observational before after methods; Safety effectiveness; Time changes

Indexed keywords

REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAFETY FACTOR;

BAYESIAN REGRESSION; LINK FUNCTIONS; MODIFICATION FACTORS; OBSERVATIONAL BEFORE-AFTER METHODS; TIME CHANGE;

FUNCTION EVALUATION;

ARCHITECTURE; BAYES THEOREM; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; HUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAFETY; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ARCHITECTURE AS TOPIC; BAYES THEOREM; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; FLORIDA; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAFETY;

EID: 84925385381     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2015.03.025     Document Type: Article

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