Assessing factors causing severe injuries in crashes of high-deck buses in long-distance driving on freeways

Analysis of Factors Influencing the Vehicle Damage Level in Fatal Truck-Related Accidents and Differences in Rural and Urban Areas

“…The response variable vehicle damage level is inherently ordinal discrete, so a categorical response model is used to identify the factors affecting it. Commonly, statistical formulation to model vehicle damage level is the ordered response formulation, especially ordered logit model or ordered probit model [4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13]. The main difference between the two ordered models is the assumption of distribution of the error term.…”

Effects of Human-Centered Factors on Crash Injury Severities

“…Other advanced methodologies used in literature include Bayesian networks [e.g., [57,58]], neural networks [e.g., [59,60]], and linear genetic programming [e.g., [61]]. Latent class approach has recently been used for analyzing driver injury severities [62][63][64].…”

“…To select the model that best fits the data, likelihood ratio tests may be performed to compare models with different number of classes [75], or based on the Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) computed for the two models [83][84][85][86]. Recent studies of crash injury severities have used the BIC measure to determine the number of classes [63,64,66]. The BIC for a given empirical model is equal to…”

Pre-research for Long-term Driving Monitoring System Based on Physiological Signals

“…Hsing-Chung proved that the two most important factors including not wearing a seat belt and fatigued driving caused severe injuries in crashes of high-deck buses in long-distance driving [2]. It has been suggested that the government should effectively implement education programs to encourage the use of seat belts for all drivers and passengers, or even revise the traffic laws to regulate wearing seat belts.…”