Analysis of injury severity of drivers involved in single- and two-vehicle crashes on highways in Ontario

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 71, Issue , 2014, Pages 286-295

  Lee, Chris ^a   Li, Xuancheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Car; Crash; Heteroscedasticity; Injury severity; Ordered logit model; Truck

Indexed keywords

CRASHWORTHINESS; TRUCKS; VEHICLES;

CAR; CRASH; HETEROSCEDASTICITY; INJURY SEVERITY; ORDERED LOGIT MODEL;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

ADULT; CANADA; CAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR VEHICLE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AUTOMOBILES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR VEHICLES; ONTARIO; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES;

EID: 84903593123     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2014.06.008     Document Type: Article

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