Analyzing injury severity factors at highway railway grade crossing accidents involving vulnerable road users: A comparative study

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 833-841

  Ghomi, Haniyeh ^a   Bagheri, Morteza ^a   Fu, Liping ^b   Miranda Moreno, Luis F ^c  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

association rules; classification and regression tree (CART); Highway railroad grade crossing (HRGC); ordered probit model; severity of accidents; vulnerable road users (VRU)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA MINING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROCEDURES; RAILWAY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AGED; DATA MINING; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RAILROADS; RISK FACTORS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84986226547     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2016.1151011     Document Type: Article

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