Interactive risk analysis on crash injury severity at a mountainous freeway with tunnel groups in China

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 111, Issue , 2018, Pages 56-62

  Huang, Helai ^a   Peng, Yunying ^a   Wang, Jie ^a   Luo, Qizhang ^a   Li, Xiang ^b  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Traffic Administration Bureau of Hunan Provincial Public Security Ministry   (China)

Author keywords

Hazardous driving event; Injury severity; Interactive effect; Mountainous freeway; Tunnel group

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; ADVANCED DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEMS; AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HAZARDS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY ENGINEERING; TRAFFIC CONTROL; VEHICLES;

CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREE MODELS; DRIVING ASSISTANCE SYSTEMS; DRIVING EVENTS; FATIGUE DRIVING WARNINGS; INJURY SEVERITY; INTERACTIVE EFFECT; MOUNTAINOUS FREEWAY; VEHICLE CHARACTERISTICS;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

CAR DRIVING; CHINA; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FATIGUE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MOTOR VEHICLE; PROBABILITY; RISK; SEASON; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAVEL;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CHINA; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; FATIGUE; HUMANS; MOTOR VEHICLES; PROBABILITY; RISK; RISK-TAKING; SEASONS; TRAVEL;

EID: 85034632972     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2017.11.024     Document Type: Article

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