Identifying traffic accident black spots with Poisson-Tweedie models

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 111, Issue , 2018, Pages 147-154

  Debrabant, Birgit ^a   Halekoh, Ulrich ^a   Bonat, Wagner Hugo ^b   Hansen, Dennis L ^a,c   Hjelmborg, Jacob ^a   Lauritsen, Jens ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Parana Federal University   (Brazil)

^c ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Black spot detection; Hospital admission data; Poisson Tweedie distribution; Traffic accidents

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; HOSPITALS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

ACCIDENT COUNTS; AUTO-REGRESSIVE; BLACK SPOT; DISCRETE DISTRIBUTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS; POWER PARAMETERS; SIMPLE APPROACH; TWEEDIE DISTRIBUTIONS;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

DENMARK; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; HUMAN; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; DENMARK; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY;

EID: 85035780656     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2017.11.021     Document Type: Article

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