A note on modeling pedestrian-injury severity in motor-vehicle crashes with the mixed logit model

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1751-1758

  Kim, Joon Ki ^a   Ulfarssom, Gudmundur F ^b   Shankar, Venkataraman N ^c   Mannering, Fred L ^d  

^a Korea Research Institute for Human Settlement   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^c The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Gender; Injury severity; Pedestrian; Random parameters

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; AGING OF MATERIALS; CRASHWORTHINESS; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; VEHICLES;

GENDER; INJURY SEVERITY; MIXED LOGIT MODELS; MOTOR VEHICLE CRASHES; PEDESTRIAN; PEDESTRIAN INJURIES; RANDOM PARAMETERS; UNOBSERVED HETEROGENEITY;

PEDESTRIAN SAFETY;

ACCELERATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROBABILITY; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES; WALKING;

ACCELERATION; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; PROBABILITY; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; WALKING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78049403855     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2010.04.016     Document Type: Article

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