Accident prediction model for public highway-rail grade crossings

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 90, Issue , 2016, Pages 73-81

  Lu, Pan ^a   Tolliver, Denver ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accident prediction; Bernoulli; Binomial; Gamma; Poisson; Quasi Poisson; Railroad grade crossing; Under dispersion

Indexed keywords

BINS; CRASHWORTHINESS; DISPERSIONS; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RAILROAD ACCIDENTS; RAILROAD CROSSINGS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC CONTROL; TRANSPORTATION;

ACCIDENT PREDICTION; BERNOULLI; BINOMIAL; GAMMA; GRADE CROSSING; POISSON; QUASI-POISSON;

ACCIDENTS;

ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; HUMAN; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROBABILITY; RAILWAY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAFETY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; RAILROADS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAFETY;

EID: 84960427900     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2016.02.012     Document Type: Article

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