Injury severity of multivehicle crash in rainy weather

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 50-59

  Jung, Soyoung ^a   Qin, Xiao ^b   Noyce, David A ^c  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Multivehicle crash severities; Rain effect; Road weather safety; Sequential logistic regression

Indexed keywords

CAR FOLLOWING; CRASH SEVERITY; DISTANCE METHOD; HIGH-SPEED; HIGHWAY INFRASTRUCTURE; INJURY SEVERITY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELS; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; MODEL PERFORMANCE; MULTI-VEHICLES; PREDICTION ACCURACY; RAIN EFFECT; RAINFALL INTENSITY; ROADWAY GEOMETRY; SAFETY IMPROVEMENT; SAFETY INITIATIVES; SEQUENTIAL LOGISTIC REGRESSION; TEMPORAL ATTRIBUTES; TRAFFIC CONDITIONS; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; VEHICLE TYPES; WATER FILM; WEATHER DATA; WEATHER STATIONS; WEATHER WARNINGS; WIND SPEED; WISCONSIN;

FORECASTING; FORESTRY; LOGISTICS; RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROADS AND STREETS; SAFETY FACTOR; WIND EFFECTS;

ACCIDENTS;

ACCIDENT; ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; INJURY; LOGISTICS; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAINFALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH WORK; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY; WIND DIRECTION; WIND VELOCITY;

UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 84857203023     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)TE.1943-5436.0000300     Document Type: Article

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