Predicting the severity of pedestrian crashes on highway-rail grade crossings

Advances in Transportation Studies

Volumn 36, Issue , 2015, Pages 63-74

  Fan, W ^a   Kane, M ^a   Haile, E ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Highway rail grade crossings; Multinomial logit modeling; Pedestrian crashes; Railroads; Severity

Indexed keywords

BALLOONS; CONCRETES; CRASHWORTHINESS; METEOROLOGY; RAILROAD CROSSINGS; RAILROADS; TEMPERATURE; TRANSPORTATION;

EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MARGINAL EFFECTS; MULTINOMIAL LOGIT; MULTINOMIAL LOGIT MODEL; PEDESTRIAN CRASHES; RAIL GRADES; SEVERITY;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

EID: 84939423112     PISSN: 18245463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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