Single Vehicle Traffic Accidents in Shanghai River-crossing Tunnels

DOI

10.2991/itoec-15.2015.45How to use a DOI?

Keywords

River-crossing tunnels; Single vehicle crashes; Crash injury propensity; ordered logit model; Risk factors

Abstract

This study attempts to evaluate the injury risk of single-vehicle accidents in fourteen Shanghai river-crossing tunnels and identify the factors that contribute to mortalities and severe injuries. The traffic accident data was obtained from the Shanghai Transport and Port Authority. The driver, environmental, vehicle and tunnel characteristics of 508 single-vehicle accidents in 2011 were examined by an ordered logit model. The results show that driver’s gender, the time of accident, road surface condition, vehicle types, speed limits, accident location, the number of lanes, tunnel length, maximum gradient, and least horizontal radius are significant factors influencing the injury severity.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yingying Xing
AU  - Jian Lu
AU  - Chen Wang
PY  - 2015/03
DA  - 2015/03
TI  - Single Vehicle Traffic Accidents in Shanghai River-crossing Tunnels
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 Information Technology and Mechatronics Engineering Conference
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 219
EP  - 225
SN  - 2352-538X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/itoec-15.2015.45
DO  - 10.2991/itoec-15.2015.45
ID  - Xing2015/03
ER  -