Policy considerations for evaluating the safety effectiveness of passing lanes on rural two-lane highways with lower traffic volumes: Wyoming 59 case study

Journal of Transportation Safety and Security

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 1-19

  Schumaker, Lindsay ^a   Ahmed, Mohamed M ^a   Ksaibati, Khaled ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

crash modification factors; Empirical Bayes; Highway Safety Manual; passing lanes; safety effectiveness; two lane roadways

Indexed keywords

EID: 84973604774     PISSN: 19439962     EISSN: 19439970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19439962.2015.1055415     Document Type: Article

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