Driver-injury severity in single-vehicle crashes in California: A mixed logit analysis of heterogeneity due to age and gender

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 50, Issue , 2013, Pages 1073-1081

  Kim, Joon Ki ^a   Ulfarsson, Gudmundur F ^b   Kim, Sungyop ^c   Shankar, Venkataraman N ^d  

^a Korea Research Institute for Human Settlement   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^d The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Gender; Heterogeneity; Injury severity; Mixed logit; Single vehicle

Indexed keywords

AGE; GENDER; HETEROGENEITY; INJURY SEVERITY; MIXED LOGIT; SINGLE-VEHICLE;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RESEARCH; SOCIAL SCIENCES; STREET LIGHTING; VEHICLES;

ACCIDENTS;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CALIFORNIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84870290936     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2012.08.011     Document Type: Article

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