A Spatial Analysis of Land Use and Network Effects on Frequency and Severity of Cyclist–Motorist Crashes in the Copenhagen Region

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 724-731

  Kaplan, Sigal ^a   Giacomo Prato, Carlo ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

conditional autoregressive models; cycling; cyclist motorist crashes; multivariate frequency and severity model

Indexed keywords

CYCLING; DENMARK; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; HUMAN; INJURIES; INJURY SCALE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; BICYCLING; DENMARK; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES;

EID: 84933181809     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2014.1003818     Document Type: Article

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