Title

Indexing Crash Worthiness And Crash Aggressivity By Vehicle Type

Keywords

Bayesian hierarchical model; Crash aggressivity; Crash compatibility; Crash worthiness; Ordered logistic model

Abstract

Crash aggressivity (CA), along with conventional crash worthiness (CW), has been recently studied to deal with the crash incompatibility between vehicles on roads. Clearly, injury severity depends on the attacking ability of striking vehicle as well as the protective ability of struck vehicle. This study proposes a systematic crash-based approach to index CA and CW of various vehicles. The approach deviates from existing methods in three aspects: (a) an explicit definition and specification in the model for CW and CA; (b) Bayesian hierarchical analysis to account for the crash-vehicle two-level data structure; (c) a five-level ordinal model to explicitly consider all levels of crash severity. The case study on major vehicle types illustrated the method and confirmed the consistency of results with previous studies. Both crash worthiness and crash aggressivity significantly vary by vehicle types, in which we identified the dominating effect of vehicle mass, and also highlighted the extraordinary aggressivity of Light Trucks and Vans (LTVs). While it was not surprising to identify least CA and CW of motorcycles, buses were unconventionally found to be less aggressive than other motor vehicles. The method proposed in this research is applicable to detailed crash-based vehicle inspection and evaluation. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.

Publication Date

7-1-2011

Publication Title

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volume

43

Issue

4

Number of Pages

1364-1370

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2011.02.010

Socpus ID

79955574305 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/79955574305

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