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Citation

Jafari Anarkooli A, Hadji Hosseinlou M. J. Saf. Res. 2016; 56: 57-65.

Affiliation

Civil Engineering Department, K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. Electronic address: Mansour@Kntu.ac.ir.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, U.S. National Safety Council, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.jsr.2015.12.003

PMID

26875166

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Many studies have examined different factors contributing to the injury severity of crashes; however, relatively few studies have focused on the crashes by considering the specific effects of lighting conditions. This research investigates lighting condition differences in the injury severity of crashes using 3-year (2009-2011) crash data of two-lane rural roads of the state of Washington.

METHOD: Separate ordered-probit models were developed to predict the effects of a set of factors expected to influence injury severity in three lighting conditions; daylight, dark, and dark with street lights. A series of likelihood ratio tests were conducted to determine if these lighting condition models were justified.

RESULTS: The modeling results suggest that injury severity in specific lighting conditions are associated with contributing factors in different ways, and that such differences cannot be uncovered by focusing merely on one aggregate model. Key differences include crash location, speed limit, shoulder width, driver action, and three collision types (head-on, rear-end, and right-side impact collisions). PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS: This paper highlights the importance of deploying street lights at and near intersections (or access points) on two-lane rural roads because injury severity highly increases when crashes occur at these points in dark conditions.


Language: en

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