Investigating the influence on safety of retrofitting Italian motorways with barriers meeting a new EU standard

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 324-329

  Cafiso, Salvatore ^a   D'Agostino, Carmelo ^a   Persaud, Bhagwant ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

crash modification factor; empirical Bayes; lateral barriers; median barrier; Road safety; rural motorways

Indexed keywords

BAYES THEOREM; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; EUROPE; EUROPEAN UNION; HUMAN; ITALY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; SAFETY; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; BAYES THEOREM; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; EUROPE; EUROPEAN UNION; HUMANS; ITALY; SAFETY; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84988961217     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2016.1203424     Document Type: Article

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