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Modeling Socio-Economic Determinants Of Traffic Fatalities, Amin Azimian, Deogratias Eustace
Modeling Socio-Economic Determinants Of Traffic Fatalities, Amin Azimian, Deogratias Eustace
Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Faculty Publications
Over several decades, traffic growth has caused an increased number of traffic crashes, which are associated with economic losses and human sufferings. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration [1] in 2016 there were a total of 34,247 fatal traffic crashes in the United States that resulted into 37,133 fatalities. Risk factors relating to the occurrence of fatal and injury severity of motor vehicle crashes have been extensively studied. Most studies [2-7] that have attempted to model the occurrences of traffic crashes and fatalities have been mainly confined to factors related to driver characteristics, roadway geometry characteristics, traffic characteristics, …