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This paper is to develop a model for evaluation of highway alignment design considering the drivers’ behavior in order to enhance the highway safety. The vehicle spacing is suggested as a new evaluation index. The suggested model is based on the artificial neural network, which can explain the non-linear relationship on the highway geometric elements. The model shows better fitting comparing with the current regression models explaining only the linear relationship. It may be helpful to evaluate the safety of newly designed highway and safety improvement program for highways in-service.
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Lee, J., Lee, S. (2006). Development of Model for Highway Design Consistency Evaluation with Artificial Neural Network. In: Cham, TJ., Cai, J., Dorai, C., Rajan, D., Chua, TS., Chia, LT. (eds) Advances in Multimedia Modeling. MMM 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4352. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69429-8_67
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