Mixed logit analysis of safety-belt use in single- and multi-occupant vehicles

Road Safety Education in the Context of the Sustainable Development of Society: The Romanian Case

“…The results of this study, the first one at the national level, show that drivers from Romania have a seatbelt wearing behavior similar those from other countries, a fact confirmed by studies of researchers from different countries [30,36]. It can be noticed that, in Romania, too, women drivers wear the seatbelt to a higher extent than men, irrespective of age; the results obtained being in accordance with the previous studies conducted in France [36], USA [28,30], China [37], and Malaysia [26]. This issue is valid in the case of teenagers from the USA [38].…”

“…The concerns regarding the reduction of the number of deaths and seriously injured persons in road accidents have determined the performance of some studies, which showed the existing differences between wearing the seatbelt by the driver and the vehicle's passengers by gender and age, and other features which revealed the factors that influence road users' behavior regarding seatbelt wearing. It has been observed that wearing seatbelts is also influenced by other socio-demographic factors, such as marital status, education level, type of vehicle [16,[26][27][28], the compulsory nature of seatbelt wearing stipulated in the legislation [18], the 19 According to the Romanian Police General Headquarters, the main causes triggering serious road accidents are reckless driving, illegal overtaking, illegal speed, pedestrians' lack of discipline, and not giving way to pedestrians or other vehicles. Passengers not wearing seatbelts represents an important death factor caused by road accidents.…”

Modeling motorcycle helmet use in Iowa: Evidence from six roadside observational surveys

“…Previous research has shown that safety belt use choices by drivers and front-seat occupants in passenger vehicles are interrelated as well (see Gkritza and Mannering, 2008). Taking account of this correlation between driver and passenger decisions may be a particularly important factor when developing intervention strategies and occupant protection campaigns.…”

Analyzing pedestrian crash injury severity at signalized and non-signalized locations

“…The mixed logit model is characterized by its capability to account for unobserved predictors in severity studies due to the difficulty in quantifying some features, such as the pedestrian and driver behavior at the time of the crash (Kim et al, 2011). The application of the mixed logit model in injury severity studies can be found in Gkritza and Mannering (2008), Milton et al (2008), Pai et al (2009), Moore et al (2011), Kim et al (2011), Haleem and Gan (2013, and Shaheed et al (2013). One study that applied the mixed logit approach to analyze pedestrian injury severity was performed by Kim et al (2010).…”