Analysis of driver injury severity in rural single-vehicle crashes

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 47, Issue , 2012, Pages 36-44

  Xie, Yuanchang ^a   Zhao, Kaiguang ^b   Huynh, Nathan ^c  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c The Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Injury severity; Latent class logit model; Multinomial logit model; Rural traffic safety

Indexed keywords

DRIVER INJURY; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; IMPACT FACTOR; INJURY SEVERITY; LATENT CLASS; MARGINAL EFFECTS; MODEL FITTING; MULTINOMIAL LOGIT; MULTINOMIAL LOGIT MODEL; PREDICTION PERFORMANCE;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RURAL ROADS;

ACCIDENTS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AGED; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856434659     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2011.12.012     Document Type: Article

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