Rainfall effect on single-vehicle crash severities using polychotomous response models

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 213-224

  Jung, Soyoung ^a   Qin, Xiao ^a   Noyce, David A ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Crash severity; Ordinal logistic regression; Rainfall effect; Road weather safety; Sequential logistic regression

Indexed keywords

CAR-FOLLOWING; CRASH SEVERITY; HIGHWAY FACILITIES; INTERSTATE HIGHWAY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELS; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; ORDINAL LOGISTIC REGRESSION; RAINFALL EFFECT; RAINFALL INTENSITY; RESPONSE MODEL; SAFETY BELT; SAFETY INITIATIVES; SEASONAL FACTORS; SIGHT DISTANCE; SPEED LIMIT; SQUARED DISTANCES; TEMPORAL ATTRIBUTES; TRAFFIC CONDITIONS; VEHICLE CRASHES; VEHICLE TYPES; WATER FILM; WEATHER FACTORS; WEATHER INFORMATION; WEATHER WARNINGS; WIND SPEED; WISCONSIN;

FORESTRY; HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; LOGISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROADS AND STREETS; VEHICLES;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

RAIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; RAIN; WISCONSIN;

EID: 71549149957     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2009.07.020     Document Type: Article

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