Injury outcomes and costs for cross-median and median barrier crashes

Journal of Safety Research

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 87-92

  Chitturi, Madhav V ^a   Ooms, Andrew W ^a   Bill, Andrea R ^a   Noyce, David A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Crash cost; Cross median crash; Injury outcome; Median barrier crash

Indexed keywords

BENEFIT-COST ANALYSIS; CRASH COSTS; CRASH SEVERITY; CRASH TYPE; CROSS MEDIAN CRASH; INJURY CRASHES; INJURY LEVELS; INJURY OUTCOME; MEDIAN BARRIER CRASHES; MEDIAN BARRIERS; MULTI-VEHICLES; SPECIFIC COST; WISCONSIN;

COST ACCOUNTING; COSTS; DECISION MAKING; VEHICLES;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; ECONOMICS; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WISCONSIN; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 79955891319     PISSN: 00224375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsr.2011.01.006     Document Type: Article

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