Detecting unforgiving roadside contributors through the severity analysis of ran-off-road crashes

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 80, Issue , 2015, Pages 262-273

  Roque, Carlos ^a   Moura, Filipe ^b   Lourenço Cardoso, João ^a  

^a NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR CIVIL ENGINEERING   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Crash severity models; Forgiving roadside; Mixed logit; Multinomial logit; Portuguese freeways; Ran off road crash

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; AMPHIBIOUS VEHICLES; CRASHWORTHINESS; OFF ROAD VEHICLES; ROADS AND STREETS; ROADSIDES; TRANSPORTATION;

CRASH SEVERITY MODELS; FORGIVING ROADSIDES; MIXED LOGIT; MULTINOMIAL LOGIT; ROAD CRASH;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PORTUGAL; RISK FACTOR; SAFETY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VERY ELDERLY; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTUGAL; RISK FACTORS; SAFETY; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84938083645     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2015.02.012     Document Type: Article

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