Determinants of bicyclist injury severities in bicycle-vehicle crashes: A random parameters approach with heterogeneity in means and variances

Analytic Methods in Accident Research

Volumn 16, Issue , 2017, Pages 35-47

  Behnood, Ali ^a   Mannering, Fred ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of South Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Bicycle vehicle crashes; Bicyclist injury severity; Heterogeneity in means and variances; Observed and unobserved heterogeneity; Random parameters logit model

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; BICYCLES; HEALTH RISKS;

HETEROGENEITY IN MEANS AND VARIANCES; INJURY SEVERITY; RANDOM PARAMETERS LOGIT; UNOBSERVED HETEROGENEITY; VEHICLE CRASHES;

ACCIDENTS;

EID: 85027543181     PISSN: 22136657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amar.2017.08.001     Document Type: Article

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