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Tytuł:
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Investigating the injury severity of single-vehicle truck crashes in a developing country.
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Autorzy:
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Rahimi E; Department of Civil and Materials Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. Electronic address: .
Shamshiripour A; Department of Civil and Materials Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Samimi A; Department of Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
Mohammadian AK; Department of Civil and Materials Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
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Źródło:
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Accident; analysis and prevention [Accid Anal Prev] 2020 Mar; Vol. 137, pp. 105444. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Jan 28.
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Typ publikacji:
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Journal Article
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Język:
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English
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Imprint Name(s):
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Publication: Oxford : Pergamon Press
Original Publication: [New York, Pergamon Press]
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MeSH Terms:
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Accidents, Traffic/*statistics & numerical data
Motor Vehicles/*classification
Wounds and Injuries/*mortality
Accidents, Traffic/prevention & control ; Adult ; Built Environment ; Developing Countries ; Engineering ; Humans ; Injury Severity Score ; Iran/epidemiology ; Middle Aged ; Technology
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Contributed Indexing:
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Keywords: Developing countries; HOPIT; Heterogeneity; Injury severity; Random parameters; Random threshold; Truck crashes
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Entry Date(s):
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Date Created: 20200201 Date Completed: 20200527 Latest Revision: 20200527
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Update Code:
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20240105
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DOI:
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10.1016/j.aap.2020.105444
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PMID:
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32004861
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Trucking plays a vital role in economic development in every country, especially countries where it serves as the backbone of the economy. The fast growth of economy in Iran as a developing country has also been accompanied by an alarming situation in terms of fatalities in truck-involved crashes, among the drivers and passengers of the trucks as well as the other vehicles involved. Despite the sizable efforts to investigate the truck-involved crashes, very little is known about the safety of truck movements in developing countries, and about the single-truck crashes worldwide. Thus, this study aims to uncover significant factors associated with injury severities sustained by truck drivers in single-vehicle truck crashes in Iran. The explanatory factors tested in the models include the characteristics of drivers, vehicles, and roadways. A random threshold random parameters hierarchical ordered probit model is utilized to consider heterogeneity across observations. Several variables turned out to be significant in the model, including driver's education, advanced braking system deployment, presence of curves on roadways, and high speed-limit. Using those results, we propose safety countermeasures in three categories of 1) educational, 2) technological, and 3) road engineering to mitigate the severity of single-vehicle truck crashes.
Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
(Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)
