Safety effects of widening shoulders on rural multilane roads: Developing crash modification functions with multivariate adaptive regression splines

Transportation Research Record

Volumn 2583, Issue , 2016, Pages 34-41

  Park, Juneyoung ^a   Abdel Aty, Mohamed ^a  

^a University of Central Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVES (ROAD); HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION; SHOULDERS (ROAD);

% REDUCTIONS; BREAKPOINT; EMPIRICAL BAYES; INJURY CRASHES; MODIFICATION FACTORS; MULTIVARIATE ADAPTIVE REGRESSION SPLINES; MULTIVARIATE ADAPTIVE REGRESSION SPLINES MODELS; ROADWAY CHARACTERISTICS; SEVERE CRASHES; TOTAL CRASHES;

HIGHWAY PLANNING;

EID: 85015637639     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: 21694052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2583-05     Document Type: Article

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