Investigating temporal trends in the explanatory variables related to the severity of drivers’ injuries in single-vehicle collisions

Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering (English Edition)

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 71-79

  Dabbour, Essam ^a  

^a ABU DHABI UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Drivers injury severity; Logistic regression; Odds ratio; Single vehicle collision

Indexed keywords

EID: 85013354783     PISSN: 20957564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtte.2016.03.010     Document Type: Article

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