Large Truck–Involved Crashes: Exploratory Injury Severity Analysis
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-2013
Keywords
freight movement, large trucks, ordered probit, random parameter, safety, injury severity
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)TE.1943-5436.0000539
Abstract
In recent years, a growing concern related to large truck accidents has increased owing to the level of injury severity that can be sustained and to the related potential economic impact. Current studies related to large truck–involved crashes are scarce and do not address the human factors that can greatly influence accident outcomes. This study presents an analysis of data from the fusion of several national data sets addressing injury severity related to large truck–involved crashes. This is accomplished by considering human, road environment, and vehicular factors in large truck–involved crashes on U.S. interstates. A random-parameter ordered-probit model was estimated to predict the likelihood of five injury severity outcomes—fatality, incapacitating, nonincapacitating, possible injury, and no injury. The modeling approach accounts for possible unobserved effects relating to human, vehicular, and road environment factors not present in the data. Estimation findings indicate that the level of injury severity is highly influenced by a number of complex interactions between factors, and the effects of some factors can vary across observations.
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Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Journal of Transportation Engineering, v. 139, issue 6, p. 596-604
Scholar Commons Citation
Islam, Mouyid B. and Hernandez, Salvador, "Large Truck–Involved Crashes: Exploratory Injury Severity Analysis" (2013). CUTR Faculty Journal Publications. 108.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cutr_facpub/108
