Effectiveness of enforcement levels of speed limit and drink driving laws and associated factors – Exploratory empirical analysis using a bivariate ordered probit model

Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering (English Edition)

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 272-279

  Wali, Behram ^a,b   Ahmed, Anwaar ^c   Iqbal, Shahid ^c   Hussain, Arshad ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY NUST   (Pakistan)

^b University of Tennessee   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Drink driving law; Enforcement; Road traffic crashes; Speed limit law

Indexed keywords

EID: 85019976240     PISSN: 20957564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtte.2017.04.001     Document Type: Article

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