Occupant injury severities in hybrid-vehicle involved crashes: A random parameters approach with heterogeneity in means and variances

Analytic Methods in Accident Research

Volumn 15, Issue , 2017, Pages 41-55

  Seraneeprakarn, Puttipan ^a   Huang, Shuaiqi ^a   Shankar, Venkataraman ^a   Mannering, Fred ^b   Venkataraman, Narayan ^a   Milton, John ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Highway crashes; Hybrid vehicles; Injury severity; Unobserved heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; ROAD VEHICLES;

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; HIGHWAY CRASHES; INDICATOR PARAMETERS; INJURY SEVERITY; LOCATION INFORMATION; MOTOR VEHICLE CRASHES; OCCUPANT INJURY SEVERITIES; UNOBSERVED HETEROGENEITY;

HYBRID VEHICLES;

EID: 85021137512     PISSN: 22136657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amar.2017.05.003     Document Type: Article

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