Multi-vehicle Collisions involving Large Trucks on Highways: An Exploratory Discrete Outcome Analysis

Mouyid Islam E.I.t and Salvador Hernandez

No 207113, 53rd Annual Transportation Research Forum, Tampa, Florida, March 15-17, 2012 from Transportation Research Forum

Abstract: Trucking industry is considered a driving force for logistic and supply chain systems which indirectly influences the national economy. So, any impedance in truck-flow or supply chain system eventually brings substantial consequences in terms of monetary values. As such, a growing concern related to large-truck (Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR) greater than 10,000 pounds) crashes has increased in recent years due to the potential economic impacts and level of injury severity sustained. With this in mind, this study aims to analyze the injury severities of multi-vehicle collisions involving large-trucks through an advanced econometric modeling approach to shed light on the contributing factors leading to large-truck crashes. Through a fused national crash datasets, we hope to provide a clearer understanding of the complex interactions of contributing factors (e.g., factors related to human (drivers), vehicle, and road-environment) influencing multi-vehicle crash outcomes. To capture these complexities using the national crash database and understand the underlying causal factor, discrete outcome models namely random parameter ordered probit and mixed logit (which accounts for observable factors) were estimated to predict the likelihood of five injury severity outcomes—fatal, incapacitating, non-incapacitating, possible injury, and no injury. Estimation findings indicate that the level of injury severity is highly influenced by a number of complex interactions of factors and that the effect of the some of the factors can vary across the observations.

Keywords: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; Research Methods/Statistical Methods; Resource/Energy Economics and Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20
Date: 2012-03
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.207113

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