Modeling severity of single vehicle run-off-road crashes in rural areas: Model comparison and selection

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 493-503

  Gong, Linfeng ^a   Fan, Wei ^a   Washing, E Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

DCM; Roadway safety; Run off road; Severity modeling

Indexed keywords

CRASHWORTHINESS; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; OFF ROAD VEHICLES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROADS AND STREETS; RURAL AREAS; STATISTICAL TESTS; TRANSPORTATION; VEHICLES;

COMPUTATIONAL BURDEN; DISCRETE CHOICE MODELS; MIXED LOGIT MODELS; PARTIAL PROPORTIONAL ODDS MODEL; ROADWAY SAFETY; SEVERITY MODEL; VALIDATION MEASUREMENTS; VEHICLE OCCUPANTS;

ACCIDENTS;

ACCIDENT; AUTOMOBILE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLEXITY; DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; INJURY; MODEL VALIDATION; RURAL AREA; SAFETY;

EID: 84974782842     PISSN: 03151468     EISSN: 12086029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/cjce-2015-0449     Document Type: Article

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