Reducing the severity of injuries resulting from motor-vehicle crashes has long been a
primary emphasis of highway agencies and motor-vehicle manufacturers. While progress …

The analysis of highway-crash data has long been used as a basis for influencing highway
and vehicle designs, as well as directing and implementing a wide variety of regulatory …

This paper focuses on the relevance of alternate discrete outcome frameworks for modeling
driver injury severity. The study empirically compares the ordered response and unordered …

This paper formulates a comprehensive econometric structure that recognizes two important
issues in crash-related injury severity analysis. First, the impact of a factor on injury severity …

Traffic fatalities in the US have been rising among pedestrians even as they fall among
motorists. Contemporaneously, the US has undergone a significant shift in consumer …

The current guiding philosophies in road safety have stated aims of zero deaths and serious
injuries. Speed has previously been highlighted as a key factor in the outcome of a crash but …

The expected effects of increasing seat belt use on the number of killed or seriously injured
(KSI) light vehicle occupants have been estimated for three scenarios of increased seat belt …

A heteroscedastic ordered logit model was used to study the effects of various vehicle,
environmental, roadway, and occupant characteristics on the severity of injuries sustained …

Crash aggressivity (CA), along with conventional crash worthiness (CW), has been recently
studied to deal with the crash incompatibility between vehicles on roads. Clearly, injury …

The severity of the two-vehicle crash is closely related to the characteristics of both the struck
and striking vehicles. Ignoring vehicle roles may lead to biased results. Thus, this study used …