Ordinal discrete choice analyses of Wisconsin cross-median crash severities

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2148, 2010, Pages 47-58

  Lu, George ^a   Chitturi, Madhav V ^a   Ooms, Andrew W ^a   Noyce, David A ^a  

^a Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROADS AND STREETS;

ALCOHOL AND DRUGS; CRASH SEVERITY; DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; HIGH SPEED; LOGIT MODELS; MULTI-VEHICLES; ORDINAL LOGIT; PROBIT MODELS; ROAD CONDITION; WISCONSIN;

VEHICLES;

EID: 78651335516     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2148-06     Document Type: Article

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