Identification and prioritization of hazardous road locations by segmentation and data envelopment analysis approach

Promet - Traffic and Transportation

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 127-136

  Sadeghi, Aliasghar ^a   Ayati, Esmaeel ^a   Neghab, Mohammadali Pirayesh ^a  

^a FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

Author keywords

Crash; Data envelopment analysis; Hazardous road section; Prioritization; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; PRIORITIZATION; ROAD TRANSPORT; SEGMENTATION; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; ACCIDENT;

IRAN;

EID: 84937346591     PISSN: 03535320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7307/ptt.v25i2.1295     Document Type: Article

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