Driver injury severity related to inclement weather at highway–rail grade crossings in the United States

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 31-38

  Hao, Wei ^a   Daniel, Janice ^a  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

highway rail grade crossings; injury severity; mixed logit model; weather influence

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; CAR DRIVING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; INJURY SCALE; MALE; RAILWAY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES; WEATHER; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

ACCELERATION; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AGED; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGHTING; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; RAILROADS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; UNITED STATES; WEATHER; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84956834297     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2015.1034274     Document Type: Article

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