Investigating factors affecting severity of large truck-involved crashes: Comparison of the SVM and random parameter logit model

A Hosseinzadeh, A Moeinaddini… - Journal of safety …, 2021 - Elsevier
Introduction: Reducing the severity of crashes is a top priority for safety researchers due to
its impact on saving human lives. Because of safety concerns posed by large trucks and the …

Identifying the factors contributing to the severity of truck-involved crashes

C Dong, SH Richards, B Huang… - International journal of …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
To address the dilemma between the need for truck transportation and the costs related to
truck-involved crashes, the key is to identify the risk factors that significantly affect truck …

Large truck–involved crashes: Exploratory injury severity analysis

M Islam, S Hernandez - Journal of Transportation Engineering, 2013 - ascelibrary.org
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 …

Injury severities of truck drivers in single-and multi-vehicle accidents on rural highways

F Chen, S Chen - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2011 - Elsevier
In adverse driving conditions, such as inclement weather and/or complex terrain, trucks are
often involved in single-vehicle (SV) accidents in addition to multi-vehicle (MV) accidents …

Comprehensive analysis of single-and multi-vehicle large truck at-fault crashes on rural and urban roadways in Alabama

S Islam, SL Jones, D Dye - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2014 - Elsevier
The research described in this paper analyzed injury severities at a disaggregate level for
single-vehicle (SV) and multi-vehicle (MV) large truck at-fault accidents for rural and urban …

Risk factors associated with truck-involved fatal crash severity: Analyzing their impact for different groups of truck drivers

Y Yuan, M Yang, Y Guo, S Rasouli, Z Gan… - Journal of safety research, 2021 - Elsevier
Introduction: Fatal crashes that include at least one fatality of an occupant within 30 days of
the crash cause large numbers of injured persons and property losses, especially when a …

Analysis of injury severity and vehicle occupancy in truck-and non-truck-involved accidents

LY Chang, F Mannering - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 1999 - Elsevier
The impact that large trucks have on accident severity has long been a concern in the
accident analysis literature. One important measure of accident severity is the most severely …

Severity analysis for large truck rollover crashes using a random parameter ordered logit model

G Azimi, A Rahimi, H Asgari, X Jin - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2020 - Elsevier
Large truck rollover crashes present significant financial, industrial, and social impacts. This
paper presents an effort to investigate the contributing factors to large truck rollover crashes …

A comprehensive analysis of factors influencing the injury severity of large-truck crashes

X Zhu, S Srinivasan - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2011 - Elsevier
Given the importance of trucking to the economic well being of a country and the safety
concerns posed by the trucks, a study of large-truck crashes is critical. This paper contributes …

Driver injury severity study for truck involved accidents at highway-rail grade crossings in the United States

W Hao, C Kamga, X Yang, JQ Ma, E Thorson… - … research part F: traffic …, 2016 - Elsevier
Although trucks only account for approximately 4% of all the vehicles based on the Federal
Railway Administration (FRA) database, about 25% involved truck accidents happen at …