Estimation of calibration functions for predicting crashes on rural two-lane roads in Arizona

Transportation Research Record

Volumn 2583, Issue , 2016, Pages 17-24

  Srinivasan, Raghavan ^a   Colety, Michael ^b   Bahar, Geni ^c   Crowther, Brent ^b   Farmen, Matt ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Kimley Horn and Assoc Inc   (United States)

^c NAVIGATS Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; RURAL ROADS; SAFETY FACTOR;

ARIZONA; CALIBRATION FACTORS; CALIBRATION FUNCTIONS; HIGHWAY SAFETY; INDIVIDUAL CALIBRATIONS; MODEL-BASED OPC; PREDICTIVE MODELS; SAMPLE SIZES; SIMPLE++; TWO-LANE ROADS;

CALIBRATION;

EID: 84976273935     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: 21694052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2583-03     Document Type: Article

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