Examining driver injury severity outcomes in rural non-interstate roadway crashes using a hierarchical ordered logit model

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 96, Issue , 2016, Pages 79-87

  Chen, Cong ^a   Zhang, Guohui ^a   Huang, Helai ^b   Wang, Jiangfeng ^c   Tarefder, Rafiqul A ^d  

^a University of Hawaii at Manoa   (United States)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d MSC01 1070   (United States)

Author keywords

Driver injury severity; Full Bayesian inference; Hierarchical ordered logit model; Rural non interstate roadway; Traffic safety

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CRASHWORTHINESS; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; INFERENCE ENGINES; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; ROADS AND STREETS; SAFETY ENGINEERING; STATISTICAL TESTS; TRANSPORTATION; VEHICLES;

BAYESIAN INFERENCE; DRIVER INJURY SEVERITIES; ENVIRONMENT CONDITIONS; HIERARCHICAL FEATURES; MODEL PERFORMANCE COMPARISONS; ORDERED LOGIT MODEL; TRAFFIC SAFETY; VEHICLE CHARACTERISTICS;

ACCIDENTS;

BAYES THEOREM; CAR DRIVING; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MALE; NEW MEXICO; RURAL POPULATION; SAFETY; SEATBELT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UTILIZATION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; BAYES THEOREM; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NEW MEXICO; RURAL POPULATION; SAFETY; SEAT BELTS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84982840735     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2016.06.015     Document Type: Article

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