Journal
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
Volume 11, Issue 17, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/app11177819
Keywords
traffic safety; single-vehicle crash; spatial effect; Bayesian estimation
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [71901134, 51905320, 71871057]
- National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars [51925801]
- Natural Science Foundation of Shandong [ZR2018BF024]
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The study aimed to explore risk factors associated with severity of rural single-vehicle crashes across different vehicle types, proposing a novel model and calibrating it on crash data from Shandong Province. Results showed that the model performed best, suggesting that concurrently considering unobserved heterogeneity and spatial correlation is a promising modeling approach.
The effect of risk factors on crash severity varies across vehicle types. The objective of this study was to explore the risk factors associated with the severity of rural single-vehicle (SV) crashes. Four vehicle types including passenger car, motorcycle, pickup, and truck were considered. To synthetically accommodate unobserved heterogeneity and spatial correlation in crash data, a novel Bayesian spatial random parameters logit (SRP-logit) model is proposed. Rural SV crash data in Shandong Province were extracted to calibrate the model. Three traditional logit approaches-multinomial logit model, random parameter logit model, and random intercept logit model-were also established and compared with the proposed model. The results indicated that the SRP-logit model exhibits the best fit performance compared with other models, highlighting that simultaneously accommodating unobserved heterogeneity and spatial correlation is a promising modeling approach. Further, there is a significant positive correlation between weekend, dark (without street lighting) conditions, and collision with fixed object and severe crashes and a significant negative correlation between collision with pedestrians and severe crashes. The findings can provide valuable information for policy makers to improve traffic safety performance in rural areas.
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