Investigation of key factors for accident severity at railroad grade crossings by using a logit model

Safety Science

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 186-194

  Hu, Shou Ren ^a   Li, Chin Shang ^b   Lee, Chi Kang ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Accident severity; Generalized logit; Marginal effect; Proportional odds; Railroad grade crossing

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT FREQUENCY; ACCIDENT RISKS; ACCIDENT SEVERITY; CATEGORICAL DATA; COVARIATES; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; GENERALIZED LOGIT; GRADE CROSSING; KEY FACTORS; LOGIT MODELS; MARGINAL EFFECT; MARGINAL EFFECTS; OBSTACLE DETECTION; P-VALUES; PROBIT MODELS; PROPORTIONAL ODDS; PROPORTIONAL ODDS MODEL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS; VARIABLE SELECTION;

AUTOMOBILES; CAMERAS; CROSSINGS (PIPE AND CABLE); HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; LOCOMOTIVES; OBSTACLE DETECTORS; RAILROAD CARS; RAILROAD CROSSINGS; RAILROADS; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; SAFETY FACTOR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE SONAR;

RAILROAD ACCIDENTS;

ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HIGHWAY; LAW ENFORCEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAILWAY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TAIWAN; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

EID: 70449522968     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2009.07.010     Document Type: Article

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