What are the differences in driver injury outcomes at highway-rail grade crossings? Untangling the role of pre-crash behaviors

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 85, Issue , 2015, Pages 157-169

  Liu, Jun ^a   Khattak, Asad J ^a   Richards, Stephen H ^b   Nambisan, Shashi ^a  

^a University of Tennessee   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Controls; Data imputation; Grade crossing; Injury severity; Path analysis; Pre crash behavior

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; AUTOMOBILE PLANTS; CONTROL; CRASHWORTHINESS; RAILROAD CROSSINGS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNALING; TRAFFIC SIGNS; TRANSPORTATION;

DATA IMPUTATION; GRADE CROSSING; INJURY SEVERITY; PATH ANALYSIS; PRE CRASHES;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

ADULT; AGED; CAR DRIVING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGY; RAILWAY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOCATION DIRECTORIES AND SIGNS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROBABILITY; RAILROADS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84942876979     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2015.09.004     Document Type: Article

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