Differential rollover risk in vehicle-to-traffic barrier collisions

Annals of Advances in Automotive Medicine - 53rd Annual Scientific Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 131-140

  Gabauer, Douglas J ^a   Gabler, Hampton C ^b  

^a BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARRIER TYPES; BINARY LOGISTIC REGRESSION; CDS; CONCRETE BARRIERS; CRASH DATA; CRASH TESTING; DATA SYSTEMS; FULL SCALE; IMPACT SCENARIOS; IN-VEHICLE; METAL BEAM; PICKUP TRUCKS; SAMPLING SYSTEMS; SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES; TESTING PROCEDURE; VEHICLE ROLLOVERS; VEHICLE TYPES; WORST CASE;

AUTOMOBILES; CRASHWORTHINESS; MEDICINE; RISK PERCEPTION; UTILITY TRUCKS;

VEHICLES;

ARTICLE; CAR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; HUMAN; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ODDS RATIO; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 72749103691     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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