WIT Press


Modelling Highway Safety With Data From Chinese Freeways

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

108

Pages

10

Page Range

471 - 480

Published

2009

Size

372 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/SAFE090441

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

X. Sun, Y. He, L. Zhong & Y. Chen

Abstract

This paper presents a study on the development of safety performance function for freeways. Applying well-established statistical methods, we evaluated all variables that may affect freeway safety and selected the most significant ones in the model. A variable analysis unit was utilized in this study to overcome the difficulties in obtaining accurate crash and highway attribute data, as well as to improve the modelling quality. The results of this study provide much needed tools for freeway safety analysis. Keywords: freeway safety, safety performance model, probability distribution.

Keywords

freeway safety, safety performance model, probability distribution