Modeling injury severity in work zones using ordered probit regression

ICCTP 2010: Integrated Transportation Systems: Green, Intelligent, Reliable - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of Chinese Transportation Professionals

Volumn 382, Issue , 2010, Pages 1058-1067

  Wang, Zhenyu ^a   Lu, Jian J ^a   Wang, Qing ^b   Lu, Linjun ^a   Zhang, Zhao ^a  

^a University of South Florida   (United States)

^b Jiangsu Nanjing Highway Scientific Institute ^*  (China)

Author keywords

Florida; Traffic accidents; Workspace

Indexed keywords

CONTRIBUTING FACTOR; FLORIDA; GEOMETRIC DESIGN; INJURY SEVERITY; MAINTENANCE ACTIVITY; SAFETY PROBLEMS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS; TRAFFIC CONFLICTS; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; WORK ZONE CRASHES; WORK ZONE SAFETY; WORK ZONES; WORKSPACE;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 78049498267     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/41127(382)113     Document Type: Conference Paper

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