Examining pedestrian-injury severity using alternative disaggregate models

Research in Transportation Economics

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 123-136

  Abay, Kibrom A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Crime history; Ordered and unordered response models; Pedestrian injury severity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878144981     PISSN: 07398859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.retrec.2012.12.002     Document Type: Article

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