Using microscopic video data measures for driver behavior analysis during adverse winter weather: opportunities and challenges

Journal of Modern Transportation

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 81-92

  Fu, Ting ^a   Zangenehpour, Sohail ^a   St Aubin, Paul ^b   Fu, Liping ^c,d   Miranda Moreno, Luis F ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^d SOUTHWEST JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Driver behavior; Issues; Time to collision; Video data collection; Winter; Winter road maintenance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84934950515     PISSN: 2095087X     EISSN: 21960577     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40534-015-0073-3     Document Type: Article

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