Shively, Thomas S.; Kockelman, Kara; Damien, Paul - In: Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 44 (2010) 5, pp. 699-715
This paper uses a semi-parametric Poisson-gamma model to estimate the relationships between crash counts and various roadway characteristics, including curvature, traffic levels, speed limit and surface width. A Bayesian nonparametric estimation procedure is employed for the model's link...