The effect of passengers on driver-injury severities in single-vehicle crashes: A random parameters heterogeneity-in-means approach

Analytic Methods in Accident Research

Volumn 14, Issue , 2017, Pages 41-53

  Behnood, Ali ^a   Mannering, Fred ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of South Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Driver injury severity; Gender; Heterogeneity in means; Random parameters logit model; Single vehicle crashes; Vehicle passenger

Indexed keywords

VEHICLES;

DRIVER INJURY SEVERITIES; GENDER; HETEROGENEITY IN MEANS; RANDOM PARAMETERS LOGIT; VEHICLE CRASHES;

ACCIDENTS;

EID: 85019206304     PISSN: 22136657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amar.2017.04.001     Document Type: Article

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