A kinetic energy model of two-vehicle crash injury severity

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 741-754

  Sobhani, Amir ^a   Young, William ^a   Logan, David ^a   Bahrololoom, Sareh ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conservation of momentum; Crash severity; Generalised linear regression model; Injury Severity Score; Kinetic energy

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION OF MOMENTUM; CRASH CHARACTERISTICS; CRASH INJURY SEVERITY; CRASH POTENTIAL; CRASH SEVERITY; DISCRETE EVENTS; INJURY SEVERITY; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; INTEGRAL PART; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; NEWTONIAN MECHANICS; REGRESSION MODEL; ROAD CRASH; SEAT BELT; SIMULATION MODEL; SPEED CHANGE; TRAFFIC SIMULATION MODEL; TRAFFIC SYSTEMS; VEHICLE CRASHES;

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ESTIMATION; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; KINETIC ENERGY; LINEAR REGRESSION; TRAFFIC CONTROL; VEHICLES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; KINETICS; MECHANICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCELERATION; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUSTRALIA; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; KINETICS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MECHANICAL PROCESSES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 79952442805     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2010.10.021     Document Type: Article

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