Journal of Undergraduate Research
Keywords
risk factors, interstate crashes, spatial statistics, highway safety
College
Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Department
Statistics
Abstract
The goal of systemic highway safety improvement is to identify road characteristics, called risk factors, associated with a higher prevalence of crashes, so that the roads can be modified to avoid these characteristics. However, the statistical analyses these improvement projects are based on generally use methods which are not appropriate for the data. Our project implements novel spatial statistical methodology which is appropriate and state-of-the-art to identify these risk factors.
Recommended Citation
Gibson, Kaitlin and Heaton, Matthew
(2017)
"Identifying Risk Factors for Interstate Crashes using Spatial Statistics,"
Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2017:
Iss.
1, Article 308.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2017/iss1/308