Modeling animal-vehicle collisions considering animal-vehicle interactions

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1991-1998

  Lao, Yunteng ^a   Zhang, Guohui ^b,c   Wu, Yao Jan ^a,d   Wang, Yinhai ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c MSC01 1070   (United States)

^d Saint Louis University   (United States)

Author keywords

Accident modeling; Animal vehicle collision; Carcass removal; Negative binomial (NB) regression; Roadway Safety; Vehicle animal interaction based probability model

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL-VEHICLE COLLISION; CARCASS REMOVAL; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL; ROADWAY SAFETY; VEHICLE-ANIMAL INTERACTION-BASED PROBABILITY MODEL;

CONSERVATION; DATA REDUCTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; PROBABILITY; VEHICLES;

ANIMALS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DEER; HUMAN; MOTOR VEHICLE; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; URBAN POPULATION;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ANIMALS; DEER; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTOR VEHICLES; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 79961166284     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2011.05.017     Document Type: Article

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