Safety impacts of pavement surface roughness at two-lane and multi-lane highways: accounting for heterogeneity and seemingly unrelated correlation across crash severities

Transportmetrica A: Transport Science

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2019, Pages 18-33

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

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

heterogeneity; multi lane highways; Pavement condition; risk compensation; seemingly unrelated correlation; two lane highways

Indexed keywords

PAVEMENTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

HETEROGENEITY; MULTI-LANE HIGHWAY; PAVEMENT CONDITION; RISK COMPENSATIONS; TWO-LANE HIGHWAYS;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

EID: 85029897026     PISSN: 23249935     EISSN: 23249943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/23249935.2017.1378281     Document Type: Article

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