A preliminary investigation of the effectiveness of high visibility enforcement programs using naturalistic driving study data: A grouped random parameters approach

Analytic Methods in Accident Research

Volumn 21, Issue , 2019, Pages 1-12

  Pantangi, Sarvani Sonduru ^a   Fountas, Grigorios ^b   Sarwar, Md Tawfiq ^c   Anastasopoulos, Panagiotis Ch ^d   Blatt, Alan ^e   Majka, Kevin ^e   Pierowicz, John ^e   Mohan, Satish B ^a  

^a State University of New York   (United States)

^b EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c EAST WEST UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

^d University at Buffalo The State University of New York   (United States)

^e CUBRC   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggressive driving behavior; Grouped random parameters; High visibility enforcement; Speeding; Tailgating

Indexed keywords

REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VISIBILITY;

AGGRESSIVE DRIVING BEHAVIORS; HIGH-VISIBILITY ENFORCEMENT; RANDOM PARAMETERS; SPEEDING; TAILGATING;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 85061807496     PISSN: 22136657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amar.2018.10.003     Document Type: Article

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