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The effects of lighting on driver's injury severity at highway-rail grade crossings.
- Source :
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Journal of Advanced Transportation . Jun2016, Vol. 50 Issue 4, p446-458. 13p. - Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- This study estimates the safety effect of illumination on accidents at highway-rail grade crossings in the United States, using data from exhaustive data from Federal Railroad Administration database covering the period 2002-2011. Using mixed logit modeling approach, the study explores the determinants of driver injury severity at unlighted highway-rail grade crossings compared with lighted highway-rail grade crossings in the United States. Several key issues are explored including availability of relevant highway-rail grade crossing accident inventory data; relevant data element structures; specification and estimation of models to estimate driver's injury severity with lighting and without lighting; and techniques to interpret model parameters. Overall, highway-rail grade crossing lighting improves safety by reducing the probability of high-level injury severity through improvements in driver's visibility compared with unlighted intersections. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01976729
- Volume :
- 50
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Advanced Transportation
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 115831326
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1002/atr.1353