Introduction: Due to the high involvement of traffic barriers in severity crashes, extensive efforts have been made find factors those crashes. In this study, mixed logit model has recognized and employed for modeling crash severity. Methods: The method shown an improvement over standard model, which assumed impacts predictors are fixed across observations. However, most past studies assume con...

background: injuries and deaths from road traffic crashes are one of the main public health problems throughout the world. this study aimed to identify determinants of fatality traffic accident in iran for the twenty-span year from 1991 to 2011. methods: a time series analysis (1991-2011) was used to examine the effects of some of the key explanatory factors (gdp per capita, number of doctors p...

The Global Burden of Disease study, undertaken by the World Health Organization (WHO), Harvard University and the World Bank, showed that in 1990, traffic crashes were assessed to be the world's ninth most important health problem. The study forecasts that, by the year 2020, road crashes would move up to third place in the table of leading causes of death and disability facing the world communi...

Highlights Data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) and General Estimates System (GES) show that, in 2011, about 3 percent of fatal crashes, 1.7 percent of injury crashes, and 2 percent of property-damage-only (PDO) crashes involved single-unit trucks (SUTs). Crashes involving SUTs killed 1,064 people and injured about 38,000 people. Additionally, about 87,000 SUTs were involved ...

1 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, 2 Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, 3 Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, 4 Institute of Health Policy Management & Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, 5 Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, 6...

OBJECTIVE Signalized intersections are accident-prone areas especially for rear-end crashes due to the fact that the diversity of the braking behaviors of drivers increases during the signal change. The objective of this article is to improve knowledge of the relationship between rear-end crashes occurring at signalized intersections and a series of potential traffic risk factors classified by ...

A critical part of any risk assessment is identifying how to represent exposure to the risk involved. Recent research shows that the relationship between crash count and traffic volume is nonlinear; consequently, a simple crash rate computed as the ratio of crash count to volume is not suitable for comparing the safety of sites with different traffic volumes. To solve this problem, we describe ...

ITE JOURNAL / JULY 2003 INTRODUCTION The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has estimated that driver inattention is a causative factor in 25–30 percent of police-reported traffic crashes in the United States— approximately 1.2 million crashes per year.1,2 An inattentive driver may be distracted temporarily from the driving task by something inside or outside the vehicle, ma...