%0 Journal Article
%T A comparative analysis of powered two wheelers crash severity among different urban areas
%J Procedia - social and behavioral sciences
%D 2012
%A Cafiso, Salvatore
%A La Cava, Grazia
%A Pappalardo, Giuseppina
%V 53
%N 
%P 890-899
%X Powered Two-Wheelers are greatly represented in fatal crashes, above all in urban areas accounting for 21% of all road fatalities by mode of transport in EU. In an international comparison of PTWs crashes, Italy assumes a leadership accounting 30% of deaths on the total losses in crashes in urban area. In this paper a Bayesian approach is used to analyze proportion of PTWs fatal crashes with respect to total number involving a PTW in different urban areas in Italy. Proportion of fatalities is used as measure of severity risk which can be ranked in order to identify anomalous situations.<p />
%G en
%I Elsevier Publishing
%@ 1877-0428
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.09.938