Research Article

Spatial Influence Analysis of Traffic Safety in Diverging Areas between Freeway Segments and Off Ramps

Table 1

Continuous variables description for diverging area analysis.

VariablesDescriptionSumMeanStd. deviationMaximumMinimum

Ramp.LengthThe length of a ramp in mile11.670.160.100.540.03
Ramp_ADTAverage daily traffic of a ramp361.825.034.1814.730.02
Up_Interstate.LengthThe length of up interstate in mile33.100.460.542.780.01
Up_Interstate_ADTAverage daily traffic of up interstate2689.5337.3514.9264.0811.78
Down_Interstate.LengthThe length of down interstate in mile19.730.270.170.790.03
Down_ADTAverage daily traffic of down interstate2327.7632.3313.2458.4810.66
IRIPavement roughness in inches per mile101.291.410.402.430.00
Median_WidthMedian width in feet524.307.287.1518.300.00
Speed_LimitSpeed limit4327.8560.1112.4274.5631.07

Notes: the number representing average daily traffic (ADT) is in thousand.