Single-vehicle crashes along rural mountainous highways in Malaysia: An application of random parameters negative binomial model

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 102, Issue , 2017, Pages 153-164

  Rusli, Rusdi ^a,c   Haque, Md Mazharul ^a   King, Mark ^a   Voon, Wong Shaw ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b Science and Engineering Faculty ^*  (Malaysia)

^c Politeknik Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Developing country; Horizontal curve; Mountainous roads; Random parameters model; Single vehicle crashes; Vertical gradient

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; BINS; CRASHWORTHINESS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GEOMETRY; HIGHWAY PLANNING; METEOROLOGY; ROADS AND STREETS; ROADSIDES; SHOULDERS (ROAD); TRANSPORTATION; VEHICLES;

HORIZONTAL CURVES; MOUNTAINOUS ROADS; RANDOM PARAMETERS; VEHICLE CRASHES; VERTICAL GRADIENTS;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

RAIN;

CAR DRIVING; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; HUMAN; MALAYSIA; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; HUMANS; MALAYSIA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RAIN; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 85015020092     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2017.03.002     Document Type: Article

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