The influence of zonal configurations on macro-level crash modeling

Transportmetrica A: Transport Science

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2019, Pages 417-434

  Zhai, Xiaoqi ^a   Huang, Helai ^a   Xu, Pengpeng ^b   Sze, N N ^c  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

crash severity; geographical configuration; macro level traffic safety analysis; Modifiable areal unit problem

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

CRASH SEVERITY; GEOGRAPHICAL CONFIGURATION; GEOGRAPHICAL UNITS; MACRO-LEVEL SAFETY ANALYSIS; MODIFIABLE AREAL UNIT PROBLEM; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATIONS; TRAFFIC ANALYSIS ZONES; TRAFFIC SAFETY;

TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 85049639389     PISSN: 23249935     EISSN: 23249943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/23249935.2018.1493550     Document Type: Article

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