Impact of road-surface condition on rural highway safety: A multivariate random parameters negative binomial approach

Analytic Methods in Accident Research

Volumn 16, Issue , 2017, Pages 75-89

  Chen, Sikai ^a   Saeed, Tariq Usman ^a,b   Labi, Samuel ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Accident severity; Peltzman effect; Risk compensation; Risk homeostasis; Rural highway; Unobserved heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PAVEMENTS; RURAL ROADS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ACCIDENT SEVERITY; PELTZMAN EFFECT; RISK COMPENSATIONS; RISK HOMEOSTASIS; RURAL HIGHWAYS; UNOBSERVED HETEROGENEITY;

ACCIDENTS;

EID: 85029697533     PISSN: 22136657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amar.2017.09.001     Document Type: Article

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