Assessing the Determinants of Changes in Traffic Fatalities in Developed Countries

Transportation Research Record

Volumn 2513, Issue , 2015, Pages 63-71

  Ahangari, Hamed ^a   Atkinson Palombo, Carol ^b   Garrick, Norman W ^a  

^a Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOTOR TRANSPORTATION;

DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; HEALTH CONCERNS; INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS; PANEL DATA MODELS; RATE OF CHANGE; RELATIVE RATES; ROAD SAFETY; TRAFFIC FATALITIES;

ROADS AND STREETS;

EID: 84980396170     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: 21694052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2513-08     Document Type: Review

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