Investigating varying effect of road-level factors on crash frequency across regions: A Bayesian hierarchical random parameter modeling approach

Analytic Methods in Accident Research

Volumn 20, Issue , 2018, Pages 81-91

  Han, Chunyang ^a   Huang, Helai ^a   Lee, Jaeyoung ^b   Wang, Jie ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crash frequency; Hierarchical random parameter model; Regional variation; Road level factor

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS);

CRASH FREQUENCY; DEVIANCE INFORMATION CRITERIONS (DIC); HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; MODEL CONSTRUCTION; RANDOM PARAMETER MODEL; REGIONAL VARIATION; ROAD-LEVEL FACTOR; ROADWAY FACILITIES;

ROADS AND STREETS;

EID: 85055051734     PISSN: 22136657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amar.2018.10.002     Document Type: Article

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