Factors influencing injury severity of crashes involving HAZMAT trucks

International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 1-9

  Uddin, Majbah ^a   Huynh, Nathan ^a  

^a The Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

HAZMAT; Injury severity; Ordered probit; Random parameter; Truck crash

Indexed keywords

EID: 85045543357     PISSN: 20460430     EISSN: 20460449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijtst.2017.06.004     Document Type: Article

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