Modeling spatial relationships between multimodal transportation infrastructure and traffic safety outcomes in urban environments

Safety Science

Volumn 82, Issue , 2016, Pages 325-337

  Tasic, Ivana ^a   Porter, Richard J ^a  

^a University of Utah   (United States)

Author keywords

Multimodal transportation infrastructure; Spatial analysis; Statistical road safety modeling; Transportation safety; Urban multimodal transportation

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ACCIDENTS; COMPLEX NETWORKS; CRASHWORTHINESS; ECONOMICS; LAND USE; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION; NONMOTORIZED TRANSPORTATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROADS AND STREETS; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SAFETY FACTOR; TRAFFIC CONTROL; TRANSPORTATION; URBAN PLANNING; VEHICLES;

COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; MULTIMODAL FACILITIES; MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL REGRESSION MODEL; ROAD SAFETY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURES; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY;

URBAN TRANSPORTATION;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIXED EFFECT NEGATIVE BINOMIAL MODEL; HIGHWAY; LAND USE; MOTOR VEHICLE; MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM EFFECT NEGATIVE BINOMIAL MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; TRAFFIC SAFETY; TRAVEL DEMAND; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

EID: 84945267987     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: 18791042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2015.09.021     Document Type: Article

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