An empirical assessment of the effects of economic recessions on pedestrian-injury crashes using mixed and latent-class models

Analytic Methods in Accident Research

Volumn 12, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-17

  Behnood, Ali ^a   Mannering, Fred L ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of South Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic recession; Latent class logit model; Mixed logit model; Pedestrian; Temporal stability; Transferability

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; LONG TERM EVOLUTION (LTE); PEDESTRIAN SAFETY; STABILITY;

ECONOMIC RECESSION; LATENT CLASS LOGIT MODELS; MIXED LOGIT MODELS; PEDESTRIAN; TEMPORAL STABILITY; TRANSFERABILITY;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84982822066     PISSN: 22136657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amar.2016.07.002     Document Type: Article

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