Rear-end crash is a major type of traffic crashes leading to a large number of injuries and
fatalities each year, and passenger cars and light trucks are two main vehicle types in rear …

Most of the previous studies that investigated the factors increasing the severity of rear-end
collisions were based on analyzing collision reports from multiple years and combining them …

Traditional crash-severity modeling uses detailed data gathered after a crash has occurred
(number of vehicles involved, age of occupants, weather conditions at the time of the crash …

Passenger-vehicle travel data from the 1990 Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey
were combined with crash data from the 1990 Fatal Accident Reporting System and the …

The number of commercial vehicles on US roads has grown dramatically over the past few
decades. Although the number of large trucks involved in fatal and injury crashes has …

Problem: The expected substantial increase in people aged 65 or older is important for
those concerned about transportation injuries. However, much of the previous research …

Rear-end crashes are one of the frequently occurring types of crashes. It is becoming
increasingly apparent that in order to develop effective rear-end crash countermeasures, it is …

Rural roads carry less than fifty percent of the traffic in the United States. However, more
than half of the traffic accident fatalities occurred on rural roads. This research focuses on …

Road crash prediction models are very useful tools in highway safety, given their potential
for determining both the crash frequency occurrence and the degree severity of crashes …

This paper describes the use of ordered probit models to examine the risk of different injury
levels sustained under all crash types, two-vehicle crashes, and single-vehicle crashes. The …