Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2019
Keywords
Truck-related crashes, crash severity, ordered probit model, marginal effect
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1177/1687814018822186
Abstract
Truck-related crashes result in tremendous lives and property loss and become a serious safety issue in China. The goal of this article is to identify the influential factors for severity of truck-related crashes using data from Jingjintang freeways in China and to design an ordered probit model to explore their relationship. Records including crashes, traffic flow attributes, and geometric design features ranging from 2009 to 2012 were collected from Jingjintang freeway. Crashes are divided into three severity levels: slight injury, injury, and fatal injury. The injury crashes is ranking the first place occupying 64.37%. Truck-related crashes are likely to occur when truck percentage is around 20% and 80%. The speed of traffic flow decreases with the more appearance of trucks. The ordered probit model is developed to estimate the impacts of influential factors on injury severity of truck-related crashes. Marginal effects for each level of injury severity are calculated. The results reveal that truck-involving crashes are highly sensitive to factors such as time of day, truck percentage, average slope, operating speed, speed difference, and exposure variable. The average slope of road segment and speed gaps has the greatest impact on all severity levels of crashes.
Rights Information
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Advances in Mechanical Engineering, v. 11, issue 1, p. 1-8
Scholar Commons Citation
Xu, Ting; Jiang, Rui-sen; Zhao, Lei; Qi, Long; and Zhang, Yu, "Analysis of Truck-related Crashes of Freeways in China" (2019). Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications. 70.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/egx_facpub/70
