How highway safety regulations and enforcement activities affect subcategories of motor vehicle fatalities

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1030-1038

  Welki, Andrew M ^a   Zlatoper, Thomas J ^a  

^a JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Enforcement activities; Highway fatality subcategories; Seemingly unrelated regression

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; TRUCKS;

ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITY; HIGHWAY FATALITY SUBCATEGORY; HIGHWAY SAFETY; LARGE-TRUCKS; LIGHT TRUCKS; MOTOR VEHICLE FATALITIES; SAFETY ENFORCEMENT; SAFETY REGULATIONS; SEEMINGLY UNRELATED REGRESSION; SPEED LIMIT;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ACCIDENT; AUTOMOBILE; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MOTORWAY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PEDESTRIAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STANDARD (REGULATION); TRANSPORTATION SAFETY;

EID: 69249220104     PISSN: 13665545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2009.03.005     Document Type: Article

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