Validation of the influencing factors associated with traffic violations and crashes on freeways of developing countries: A case study of Iran

• Published in: Accident analysis and prevention Vol. 121; pp. 358 - 366
• Main Authors: Hadji Hosseinlou, Mansour, Mahdavi, Alireza, Jabbari Nooghabi, Mehdi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 01.12.2018
• Subjects: Accidents, Traffic - mortality; Accidents, Traffic - statistics & numerical data; Automobile Driving - legislation & jurisprudence; Automobile Driving - statistics & numerical data; Bayes Theorem; Chi-Square Distribution; Chi-square test; Crash; Developing Countries; Freeways; Humans; Iran - epidemiology; Motor Vehicles - classification; Motor Vehicles - statistics & numerical data; Poisson; Poisson Distribution; Risk Assessment; Violation; Zero-truncated Poisson; Violation; Freeways; Crash; Poisson; Chi-square test; Zero-truncated Poisson

•The number of crashes per kilometer in Iran’s freeways is almost twice the other rural roads.•This study aims to validate the amount of influence of factors associated with traffic violations and crashes in freeways.•The proposed models are normal Poisson and zero-truncated Poisson.•The zero-trunca...