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Title:

Development and Application of Crash Injury Severity Model in Hot-Spot Detection

Accession Number:

01368625

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

Road traffic fatalities and injuries pose significant social and economic impact all over the world. In developing countries like India, nearly 2% of GDP is lost every year, which is enormous in terms of loss of productivity and property damage. However, systematic data collection and scientific research on road traffic crashes are rare in India. This study makes an attempt to present statistical evidence showing how different characteristics such as seasonal variation, vehicle type, road user’s attributes and collision type will influence probabilities of sustaining different levels of injury severity in motor vehicle accidents. To perform this different injury severity levels such as crashes involving property damages, minor injuries, major injury and fatalities are analyzed using ordered probit model. A total of 1100 accident records from National Highway 6 in Howrah district for years 2007, 2008 & 2009 are considered for this study. Results indicate that factors such as location of the crash, time of occurrence of the accident, the vehicles involved in the accidents as well as the maneuver of collisions are the four most important attributes that are very significant in explaining crash severity It has also been observed that accidents occurring near intersections are relatively less severe than accident occurring on roadway segments. Pedestrians, motorcycles, bicycle and auto-rickshaws are observed to sustain higher levels of injury severity than other users. Potential use of the results from this crash severity model is explored in detecting crash hotspots, especially in the absence of quality data.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANB20 Safety Data, Analysis and Evaluation

Monograph Accession #:

01362476

Report/Paper Numbers:

12-4733

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Mitra, Sudeshna
Mahato, Satish Kumar
Bandyopadhyaya, Ranja

Pagination:

17p

Publication Date:

2012

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 91st Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2012-1-22 to 2012-1-26
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

References; Tables

Geographic Terms:

India

Subject Areas:

Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor; I84: Personal Injuries

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2012 Paper #12-4733

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Feb 8 2012 5:26PM