Crash data quality for road safety research: Current state and future directions

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 130, Issue , 2019, Pages 84-90

  Imprialou, Marianna ^a   Quddus, Mohammed ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accident analysis; Accident data; Crash data quality; Crash police reports; Crash severity; Road safety

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ACCIDENTS; DATA REDUCTION; ROADS AND STREETS;

ACCIDENT ANALYSIS; ACCIDENT DATA; CRASH DATA; CRASH SEVERITY; POLICE REPORTS; ROAD SAFETY;

MOTOR TRANSPORTATION;

FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; SAFETY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; DATA ACCURACY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; SAFETY;

EID: 85014130699     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2017.02.022     Document Type: Article

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