Analysis of stationary and dynamic factors affecting highway accident occurrence: A dynamic correlated grouped random parameters binary logit approach

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 113, Issue , 2018, Pages 330-340

  Fountas, Grigorios ^a   Sarwar, Md Tawfiq ^b   Anastasopoulos, Panagiotis Ch ^a   Blatt, Alan ^c   Majka, Kevin ^c  

^a State University of New York   (United States)

^b Federal Highway Administration Virginia Division   (United States)

^c CUBRC   (United States)

Author keywords

Accident occurrence; Binary mixed logit; Correlated grouped random parameters; Dynamic and stationary characteristics; Time varying parameters; Uncorrelated random parameters

Indexed keywords

FACTOR ANALYSIS;

COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS; MIXED LOGIT; RANDOM PARAMETERS; RANDOM PARAMETERS LOGIT; TIME VARYING PARAMETER; TRAFFIC CHARACTERISTICS; UNOBSERVED HETEROGENEITY;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

CAR DRIVING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; HUMAN; PROBABILITY; SAFETY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; WASHINGTON; WEATHER;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; PROBABILITY; SAFETY; WASHINGTON; WEATHER;

EID: 85042482354     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2017.05.018     Document Type: Article

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