Non-crossing rail-trespassing crashes in the past decade: A spatial approach to analyzing injury severity

Safety Science

Volumn 82, Issue , 2016, Pages 44-55

  Wang, Xin ^a   Liu, Jun ^b   Khattak, Asad J ^b   Clarke, David ^b  

^a VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION   (United States)

^b University of Tennessee   (United States)

Author keywords

Crash; Geographically Weighted Regression; Injury severity; Rail trespassing; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

RAILROADS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CONTRIBUTING FACTOR; CRASH; FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION; GEOGRAPHICALLY WEIGHTED REGRESSION; INJURY SEVERITY; PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES; SPATIAL PATTERNS; TRANSPORTATION PROFESSIONALS;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FATALITY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIGHWAY; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAILWAY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAFFIC SAFETY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84941961332     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: 18791042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2015.08.017     Document Type: Article

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