About the validity of road user behaviour and near accidents as predictors of the number and the nature of road accidents. Hasselt University
Traditional analysis methods in the domain of traffic safety rely strongly on crashes as measurement units. However, important limitations are related with the use of crash data. The occurrence of crashes is a relatively rare event, which means that registered variations in crash numbers (over time, between locations...) are at least partly due to chance. Furthermore, crashes are not always correctly reported and - most importantly - too little ...