Factors influencing the severity of crashes caused by motorcyclists: Analysis of data from Alabama

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 139, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 949-956

  Jones, Steven ^a   Gurupackiam, Saravanan ^b   Walsh, Joe ^c  

^a Univ of Alabama   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Transportation Center for Alabama   (United States)

Author keywords

Crash; Driving under the influence (DUI); Motorcycle; Multinomial logit; Severity; Speeding

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893841250     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)TE.1943-5436.0000570     Document Type: Article

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