Development of safety performance functions: Incorporating unobserved heterogeneity and functional form analysis

Transportation Research Record

Volumn 2672, Issue 30, 2018, Pages 9-20

  Wali, Behram ^a   Khattak, Asad J ^a   Waters, Jim ^b   Chimba, Deo ^c   Li, Xiaobing ^a  

^a University of Tennessee   (United States)

^b Tennessee Department of Transportation   (United States)

^c TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; ROADS AND STREETS; SAFETY ENGINEERING;

CALIBRATION FACTORS; CRASH FREQUENCY; FORM ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL FORMS; HIGHWAY SAFETY; RANDOM PARAMETERS; ROAD SEGMENTS; SAFETY PERFORMANCE FUNCTION; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY; UNOBSERVED HETEROGENEITY;

CALIBRATION;

EID: 85046701500     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: 21694052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0361198118767409     Document Type: Article

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