Identifying areas of high risk for collisions: A Canda-wide study of grade crossing safety

2017 4th International Conference on Transportation Information and Safety, ICTIS 2017 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 640-644

  Heydari, Shahram ^a   Fu, Liping ^a,b   Thakali, Lalita ^a   Joseph, Lawrence ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

high crash zones; multilevel modelling; risk adjusted ranking; zonal level ranking

Indexed keywords

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; RAILROAD CROSSINGS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISKS; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

GRADE-CROSSING SAFETY; HIGH CRASH ZONES; IDENTIFICATION PROCESS; PAIRWISE PROBABILITIES; RISK-ADJUSTED; SAFETY MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS; SPATIAL DEPENDENCIES; ZONAL-LEVEL RANKING;

SAFETY ENGINEERING;

EID: 85032798957     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICTIS.2017.8047834     Document Type: Conference Paper

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