An Analysis of Injury Outcomes of Crashes Involving Large Trucks by Time of Day in Urban Areas in Texas

Mixed logit models were used to analyze injury outcomes of crashes involving large trucks on urban interstate systems in Texas. Split subsets of the Texas crash database – Crash Records Information System were used in this discrete outcome random parameter modeling study to explore the relationship between three different time periods of a day and injury severity by accounting possible unobserved heterogeneity related to human, vehicle, road-environment in the database. Using separate models for each of the five injury levels of a traditional KABCO scale, this study estimated the likelihood of each injury level occurring during AM (6 to 9 AM), PM (4 to 7 PM), and off-peak periods and identified the factors contributing to the different severity levels. Estimated model results indicated that contributing factors are driver demographics, driving behavior, roadway geometrics, traffic characteristics, weather characteristics, temporal characteristics, and crash dynamics. This study highlights these factors that vary according to the time of day, as does injury outcome of crashes.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANB70 Truck and Bus Safety.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Hernandez, Salvador
  • Islam, Mouyid
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2015-1-11 to 2015-1-15
• Date: 2015

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: 22p
• Monograph Title: TRB 94th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash characteristics; Crash injuries; Crash severity; Drivers; Periods of the day; Truck crashes; Urban areas
• Geographic Terms: Texas
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor; I84: Personal Injuries;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01559001
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 15-5439
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 31 2015 9:09AM