TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - Exploratory multinomial logit model-based driver injury severity analyses for teenage and adult drivers in intersection-related crashes
JO  - Traffic injury prevention
A1  - Wu, Qiong
A1  - Zhang, Guohui
A1  - Ci, Yusheng
A1  - Wu, Lina
A1  - Tarefder, Rafiqul A.
A1  - Alcántara, Adélamar Dely
SP  - 413
EP  - 422
VL  - 17
IS  - 4
N2  - OBJECTIVE: Teenage drivers are more likely to be involved in severely incapacitating and fatal crashes compared to adult drivers. Moreover, since two-thirds of urban Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMTs) are on signal controlled roadways, significant research efforts are needed to investigate intersection-related teenage driver injury severities and their contributing factors in terms of driver behavior, vehicle-infrastructure interactions, environmental characteristics, roadway geometric features, and traffic compositions. Therefore, this study aims to explore the characteristic differences between teenage and adult drivers in intersection-related crashes, identify the significant contributing attributes and analyze their impacts on driver injury severities. <br><br>METHODS: Using crash data collected in New Mexico from 2010 to 2011, two multinomial Logit regression models were developed to analyze injury severities for teenage and adult drivers, respectively. Elasticity analyses and transferability tests were conducted to better understand the quantitative impacts of these factors and the teenage driver injury severity model's generality. <br><br>RESULTS: The results showed that although many of the same contributing factors were found to be significant in the both teenage and adult driver models, certain different attributes must be distinguished to specifically develop effective safety solutions for two driver groups. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: The research findings are helpful to better understand teenage crash uniqueness and develop cost-effective solutions to reduce intersection-related teenage injury severities and facilitate driver injury-mitigation research.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1538-9588
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15389588.2015.1100722
ID  - ref1
ER  -