Analyzing road crash frequencies with uncorrelated and correlated random-parameters count models: An empirical assessment of multilane highways

Analytic Methods in Accident Research

Volumn 23, Issue , 2019, Pages

  Saeed, Tariq Usman ^a   Hall, Thomas ^a   Baroud, Hiba ^b   Volovski, Matthew J ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MANHATTAN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlated random parameters; Crash frequency; Multilane highways; Negative binomial model

Indexed keywords

HIGHWAY PLANNING; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROADS AND STREETS;

CRASH FREQUENCY; EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT; HETEROGENEOUS EFFECTS; MULTI-LANE HIGHWAY; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL MODELS; RANDOM PARAMETERS; STATISTICAL INFERENCE; STATISTICAL PERFORMANCE;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

EID: 85068800745     PISSN: 22136657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amar.2019.100101     Document Type: Article

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