Transferring and calibrating safety performance functions among multiple States

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 117, Issue , 2018, Pages 276-287

  Farid, Ahmed ^a   Abdel Aty, Mohamed ^a   Lee, Jaeyoung ^a  

^a University of Central Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; Highway safety manual; Negative binomial regression; Safety performance functions; Transferability

Indexed keywords

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; HIGHWAY PLANNING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CALIBRATION FUNCTIONS; CALIBRATION TECHNIQUES; HIGHWAY SAFETY; MULTI-LANE HIGHWAY; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL REGRESSION; SAFETY PERFORMANCE FUNCTION; STATISTICAL REGRESSION MODEL; TRANSFERABILITY;

CALIBRATION;

CALIBRATION; CALIFORNIA; COOPERATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FLORIDA; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; ILLINOIS; MINNESOTA; NORTH CAROLINA; OHIO; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; SAFETY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; WASHINGTON;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; CALIBRATION; CALIFORNIA; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; FLORIDA; GOVERNMENT; HUMANS; ILLINOIS; MINNESOTA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORTH CAROLINA; OHIO; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; SAFETY; WASHINGTON;

EID: 85046626914     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2018.04.024     Document Type: Article

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