Development of safety performance functions for Spanish two-lane rural highways on flat terrain

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 95, Issue , 2016, Pages 250-265

  Garach, Laura ^a   de Oña, Juan ^a   López, Griselda ^a   Baena, Leticia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cumulative residuals; Flat terrain; Fully models; Parsimonious models; Safety performance functions; Two lane rural highways

Indexed keywords

CURING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL ROADS; SAFETY ENGINEERING;

CUMULATIVE RESIDUALS; FLAT TERRAINS; PARSIMONIOUS MODELS; SAFETY PERFORMANCE FUNCTION; TWO LANE RURAL HIGHWAYS;

TRANSPORTATION;

CALIBRATION; CAR DRIVING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; RURAL POPULATION; SAFETY; SPAIN; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CALIBRATION; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RURAL POPULATION; SAFETY; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SPAIN;

EID: 84979239807     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2016.07.021     Document Type: Article

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