Severity of pedestrian injuries due to traffic crashes at signalized intersections in Hong Kong: a Bayesian spatial logit model

Journal of Advanced Transportation

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 2015-2028

  Xu, Xuecai ^a,b   Xie, Siqi ^c   Wong, Sze Chun ^c   Xu, Pengpeng ^c   Huang, Helai ^d   Pei, Xin ^e  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; conditional autoregressive prior; pedestrian injury severity; signalized intersection; spatial logit model

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; INFERENCE ENGINES; LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT; RANDOM PROCESSES; TRAFFIC SIGNALS; TROLLEY CARS;

BAYESIAN INFERENCE; CONDITIONAL AUTOREGRESSIVE; LOGIT MODELING; PEDESTRIAN INJURIES; SIGNALIZED INTERSECTION;

ACCIDENTS;

EID: 85012894252     PISSN: 01976729     EISSN: 20423195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/atr.1442     Document Type: Article

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