Investigating the safety impact of roadway network features of suburban arterials in Shanghai

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 113, Issue , 2018, Pages 137-148

  Wang, Xuesong ^a,b,c   Yuan, Jinghui ^d   Schultz, Grant G ^e   Fang, Shouen ^a,b  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c National Engineering laboratory for Integrated Optimization of Road Traffic and Safety Analysis Technology   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^e Brigham Young University   (United States)

Author keywords

Access density; Conditional Autoregressive (CAR) model; Macro level safety modeling; Road network patterns; Signal density; Suburban arterials

Indexed keywords

LAND USE; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; ROADS AND STREETS; TRAFFIC CONTROL; TRAFFIC SIGNALS;

CONDITIONAL AUTOREGRESSIVE; ROAD NETWORK; SAFETY MODELING; SIGNAL DENSITY; SUBURBAN ARTERIALS;

TRANSPORTATION;

BAYES THEOREM; CHINA; CITY; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; HUMAN; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; SAFETY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUBURBAN POPULATION; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; BAYES THEOREM; CHINA; CITIES; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SAFETY; SUBURBAN POPULATION;

EID: 85041471694     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2018.01.029     Document Type: Article

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