Distracted driving has long been acknowledged as one of the main contributors to crashes in the US. According to past studies, driving behavior proved to be influenced by the socioeconomic characteristics of drivers. However, only few studies attempted to quantify that influence. The study proposed a Crash Risk Index to estimate the crash risk associated with the socioeconomic characteristics o...

This study tests two opposing views of institutional investors—monitoring versus expropriation--by investigating whether institutional ownership is positively or negatively related to future firm-specific stock price crash risk. We present robust evidence that institutional ownership is positively associated with future stock price crash risk. After further classifying institutional investors i...

How to maintain public transit safety and sustainability has become a major concern for the department of Road Traffic Administration. This study aims to analyze the risk factors that contribute to fatality in road traffic crashes using a 5-year police-reported dataset from the Wuhan Traffic Management Bureau. Four types of variables, including driving experience, environmental factor, roadway ...

INTRODUCTION This study examines the data from single loop detectors on northbound (NB) US-101 in San Jose, California to estimate real-time crash risk assessment models. METHOD The classification tree and neural network based crash risk assessment models developed with data from NB US-101 are applied to data from the same freeway, as well as to the data from nearby segments of the SB US-101,...

BACKGROUND It is known that experience of a previous crash is related to incidence of future crashes in a cohort of New Zealand cyclists. This paper investigated if the strength of such association differed by crash involvement propensity and by the need for medical care in the previous crash. METHODS The Taupo Bicycle Study involved 2590 adult cyclists recruited in 2006 and followed over a m...

BACKGROUND Medical conditions and associated impairments are known to be more prevalent with aging and can potentially impact the function and crash risk of older drivers. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the impact of specific medical conditions and associated impairments on older driver crash risk. METHODS A search identified reports and peer-reviewed publications evaluating the risk for medical co...