Modeling road accident injury under-reporting in Europe

European Transport Research Review

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 425-438

  Yannis, George ^a   Papadimitriou, Eleonora ^a   Chaziris, Antonis ^a   Broughton, Jeremy ^b  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b TRANSPORT RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Injury severity; Log rate analysis; Road accident injury; Under reporting

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; LAW ENFORCEMENT; ROADS AND STREETS;

ABBREVIATED INJURY SCALE; EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; INJURY SEVERITY; RATE ANALYSIS; RELATED INJURIES; ROAD ACCIDENT INJURIES; SERIOUS INJURIES; UNDER-REPORTING;

MOTOR TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 84920251232     PISSN: 18670717     EISSN: 18668887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12544-014-0142-4     Document Type: Article

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