The accident reduction effectiveness of ESC equipped cars in Great Britain

13th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems and Services

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Thomas, Pete ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; TRAFFIC CONTROL; TRANSPORTATION;

ACCIDENT REDUCTION; COMBINED EFFECT; CRASH INVOLVEMENT; ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL; FATAL CRASHES; NATIONAL ACCIDENT STATISTICS; PASSIVE SAFETY; ROAD FRICTION;

ACCIDENTS;

EID: 84950169266     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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