Investigating factors of crash frequency with random effects and random parameters models: New insights from Chinese freeway study

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 120, Issue , 2018, Pages 1-12

  Hou, Qinzhong ^a,b   Tarko, Andrew P ^b   Meng, Xianghai ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crash frequency; Design; Freeway safety; Geometric; Negative binomial model; Pavement condition; Random parameters model

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; ECONOMICS; HIGHWAY PLANNING; PAVEMENTS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SAFETY FACTOR;

CRASH FREQUENCY; FREEWAY SAFETIES; GEOMETRIC; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL MODELS; PAVEMENT CONDITION; RANDOM PARAMETERS;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

CAR DRIVING; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; HUMAN; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; SAFETY; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; WEATHER;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CHINA; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SAFETY; WEATHER;

EID: 85050655648     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2018.07.010     Document Type: Article

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