Modeling occupant-level injury severity: An application to large-truck crashes

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1427-1437

  Zhu, Xiaoyu ^a   Srinivasan, Sivaramakrishnan ^a  

^a J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Large truck crashes; Mixed ordered probit models; Occupant level injury severity

Indexed keywords

CAR DRIVER; DRIVER BEHAVIOR; EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS; ILLEGAL DRUGS; INJURY SEVERITY; LARGE-TRUCK CRASHES; LARGE-TRUCKS; MIXED ORDERED-PROBIT MODELS; OCCUPANT-LEVEL INJURY SEVERITY; PROBIT MODELS; SEAT-BELTS; SEVERITY ANALYSIS;

AUTOMOBILES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VEHICLES;

TRUCKS;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MOTOR VEHICLE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTOR VEHICLES;

EID: 79955601725     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2011.02.021     Document Type: Article

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