Exploring contributing factors to crash injury severity at freeway diverge areas using ordered probit model

Procedia Engineering

Volumn 21, Issue , 2011, Pages 178-185

  Zhang, Yang ^a   Li, Zhibin ^a   Liu, Pan ^a   Zha, Liteng ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Crash severity; Freeway diverge; OP models; SVM models

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; CRASHWORTHINESS; SHOULDERS (ROAD);

CRASH INJURY SEVERITY; CRASH SEVERITY; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; FREEWAY DIVERGE AREAS; ORDERED PROBIT MODEL; ROAD SURFACE CONDITION; SVM MODEL; TRAFFIC CHARACTERISTICS;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

EID: 84255167727     PISSN: 18777058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2011.11.2002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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