Assessment of the effects of highway geometric design features on the frequency of truck involved crashes using bivariate regression

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 75, Issue , 2015, Pages 30-41

  Dong, Chunjiao ^a   Nambisan, Shashi S ^b   Richards, Stephen H ^a   Ma, Zhuanglin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b University of Tennessee   (United States)

^c CHANG'AN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bivariate NB model; Bivariate ZINB model; Crash frequency; Geometric design features; Large truck involved crashes

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILES; GEOMETRY; HIGHWAY PLANNING; LAND USE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRUCKS;

ANNUAL AVERAGE DAILY TRAFFICS; BIVARIATE; CRASH FREQUENCY; GEOMETRIC DESIGN; HIGHWAY GEOMETRIC DESIGN; INTERNATIONAL ROUGHNESS INDEX; LARGE-TRUCKS; OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

COLLISION; DESIGN; GEOMETRY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROAD; TRUCKING;

TENNESSEE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84925661680     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2015.03.007     Document Type: Article

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