Influential factors in freeway crash response and clearance times by emergency management services in peak periods

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 331-339

  Lee, Jung Taek ^a,c   Fazio, Joseph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^c Urban Transportation Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Clearance; Cox regression; Crash; Incident; Response; Safety

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXHAUST GAS; FATALITY; INJURY SEVERITY; MOTOR VEHICLE; PREDICTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RURAL AREA; TIME; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; WEATHER;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; DATABASES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; OHIO; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RURAL POPULATION; TIME FACTORS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 31644451442     PISSN: 10286586     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389580500255773     Document Type: Article

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