Assessing the impact of reduced visibility on traffic crash risk using microscopic data and surrogate safety measures

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Volumn 74, Issue , 2017, Pages 295-305

  Peng, Yichuan ^a   Abdel Aty, Mohamed ^b   Shi, Qi ^b   Yu, Rongjie ^a  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b University of Central Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Headway variance; Log Inverse Gaussian regression model; Reduced visibility; Speed variance; Surrogate measures of safety; Time to collision; Visibility and traffic detection system

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; ADVANCED TRAVELER INFORMATION SYSTEMS; FOG; INVERSE PROBLEMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; VEHICLES; VISIBILITY;

HEADWAY VARIANCE; INVERSE GAUSSIAN; REDUCED VISIBILITY; SPEED VARIANCE; SURROGATE MEASURES; TIME TO COLLISION; TRAFFIC DETECTION SYSTEMS;

DATA REDUCTION;

ALGORITHM; FOG; SENSOR; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM;

EID: 85007193507     PISSN: 0968090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2016.11.022     Document Type: Article

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