Estimating the relationship between measured wind speed and overturning truck crashes using a binary logit model

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 574-580

  Young, Rhonda Kae ^a   Liesman, Joel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Freight vehicle safety; Overturning; Road weather information systems; Wind

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FREIGHT CARS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRUCKS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

FREIGHT VEHICLE SAFETY; OVERTURNING; ROAD WEATHER INFORMATION SYSTEMS; WIND SPEED;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA BASE; HUMAN; MOTOR VEHICLE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES; WEATHER; WIND;

ACCELERATION; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTOR VEHICLES; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; WEATHER; WIND; WYOMING;

EID: 34247501309     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2006.10.002     Document Type: Article

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