Predicting crashes on expressway ramps with real-time traffic and weather data

Transportation Research Record

Volumn 2514, Issue , 2015, Pages 32-38

  Wang, Ling ^a   Shi, Qi ^a   Abdel Aty, Mohamed ^a  

^a University of Central Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; METEOROLOGY;

BAYESIAN; CRASH ANALYSIS; GEOMETRIC INFORMATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELING; MULTI-VEHICLES; REAL- TIME; REAL-TIME CRASH PREDICTION MODELS; REAL-TIME TRAFFIC DATUM; VEHICLE DETECTION SYSTEMS; WEATHER DATA;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84975847435     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: 21694052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2514-04     Document Type: Article

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