OVERALL INJURY RISK TO DIFFERENT DRIVERS: COMBINING EXPOSURE, FREQUENCY, AND SERVICE MODELS

The goal of this paper is to estimate vehicle miles driven by different drivers using the Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey and combining those results with annual crash rates and injury severity information from the NASS General Estimates System, for a comprehensive assessment of overall risk to different drivers across vehicle classes. Driver age, gender, vehicle type, crash type and injury severity are used for distinguishing data. Results after correcting for drivers' crash exposure indicate that young drivers are more crash prone than other drivers, and that drivers of SUVs and pickups are more likely to be involved in rollover crashes than drivers of passenger cars. The rollover propensity of SUVs as well as the severity of that crash type offset many of the incident benefits for SUV drivers.

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• Authors:
  • Kweon, Y J
  • Kockelman, K M
• Publication Date: 2003-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 441-450
• Serial:
  • Accident Analysis & Prevention
  • Volume: 35
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0001-4575
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00014575

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Age; Crash injury research; Driver categories; Gender; Injury severity; Light trucks; Risk assessment; Rollover crashes; Sport utility vehicles
• Subject Areas: Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00943983
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 13 2003 12:00AM