Predicting local road crashes using socioeconomic and land cover data

Journal of Transportation Safety and Security

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 301-318

  Wang, Kai ^a   Ivan, John N ^a   Burnicki, Amy C ^a   Mamun, Sha A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

cluster analysis; crash count; local road; safety performance function

Indexed keywords

EID: 84987677336     PISSN: 19439962     EISSN: 19439970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19439962.2016.1206048     Document Type: Review

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