Analysis of the injury severity of crashes by considering different lighting conditions on two-lane rural roads

Journal of Safety Research

Volumn 56, Issue , 2016, Pages 57-65

  Jafari Anarkooli, A ^a   Hadji Hosseinlou, M ^a  

^a K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Fixed effects; Injury severity; Lighting condition; Ordered probit; Rural roads

Indexed keywords

CRASHWORTHINESS; LIGHTING; TRANSPORTATION;

CONTRIBUTING FACTOR; FIXED EFFECTS; INJURY SEVERITY; LIGHTING CONDITIONS; LIKELIHOOD RATIO TESTS; ORDERED PROBIT; ORDERED PROBIT MODEL; SPECIFIC EFFECTS;

RURAL ROADS;

HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; HUMANS; LIGHTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84988038652     PISSN: 00224375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsr.2015.12.003     Document Type: Article

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