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Speed/Headway Influence on Crashes

Last Modified Date: 8/26/2008

The National ITS Implementation Research Center—a consortium of George Mason University, the University of Virginia, and Virginia Tech—has released a report that examines a new crash risk predictor, safe headway distance, to estimate traffic crash likelihood by using individual vehicular information and applying it to basic sections of interstates in Virginia.



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