Pavement marking retroreflectivity and crash frequency: Segmentation, line type, and imputation effects

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 142, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 04016030-

  Bektas, Basak Aldemir ^a   Gkritza, Konstantina ^b   Smadi, Omar ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGHWAY MARKINGS; PAVEMENTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROADS AND STREETS;

ADDITIONAL DATUM; COLLECTION METHODS; DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION; INTERNATIONAL ROUGHNESS INDEX; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL REGRESSION; PAVEMENT CONDITION; PAVEMENT MARKINGS; SEGMENT LENGTHS;

ROAD AND STREET MARKINGS;

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; INDEX METHOD; MARKING METHOD; PAVEMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DATA;

EID: 84978776387     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)TE.1943-5436.0000863     Document Type: Article

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