Benchmarking regions using a heteroskedastic grouped random parameters model with heterogeneity in mean and variance: Applications to grade crossing safety analysis

Analytic Methods in Accident Research

Volumn 19, Issue , 2018, Pages 33-48

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

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; RAILROAD CROSSINGS; RAILROADS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

GRADE-CROSSING SAFETY; HIGHWAY-RAILWAY GRADE CROSSING; LARGE-SCALE TRANSPORTATION; MODEL SPECIFICATIONS; PLANNING PROJECTS; RANDOM PARAMETERS; SAFETY PERFORMANCE; UNOBSERVED HETEROGENEITY;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 85048888129     PISSN: 22136657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amar.2018.06.003     Document Type: Article

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