Safety performance functions for crash severity on undivided rural roads

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 93, Issue , 2016, Pages 75-91

  Russo, Francesca ^a   Busiello, Mariarosaria ^a   Dell'Acqua, Gianluca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Countermeasures; Injury and fatality frequency; Safety performance functions; Undivided rural roads

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; RADAR COUNTERMEASURES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROADS AND STREETS; RURAL ROADS; SAFETY ENGINEERING;

ANNUAL AVERAGE DAILY TRAFFICS; CURVATURE CHANGE RATES; FUNCTIONAL FEATURES; INJURY AND FATALITY FREQUENCY; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL REGRESSION MODEL; NON-FATAL INJURIES; RESIDUAL ANALYSIS; SAFETY PERFORMANCE FUNCTION;

TRANSPORTATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; HUMAN; INJURY; ITALY; MORTALITY; RURAL POPULATION; SAFETY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; ITALY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORTALITY; RURAL POPULATION; SAFETY; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84969551373     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2016.04.016     Document Type: Article

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