期刊
ANALYTIC METHODS IN ACCIDENT RESEARCH
卷 34, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.amar.2021.100205
关键词
Increasing speed limits; Temporal instability; Injury severity; Crash frequency; Unobserved heterogeneity in means and variances
资金
- National Cooperative Highway Research Program [NCHRP17-79]
- Center for Transportation, Environment, and Community Health (CTECH) [69A3551747116, 69A3551747119]
- US Department of Transportation
- Center for Teaching Old Models New Tricks (TOMNET)
- Center for Transportation, Environment, and Community Health (CTECH) , University Transportation Centers - US Department of Transportation [69A3551747116, 69A3551747119]
Recent increases in maximum interstate speed limits in the US have not significantly affected crash frequencies, but have shown some changes in injury severities. The findings suggest that higher speed limits may contribute to increased injury severities in single-vehicle crashes.
In recent years, US States have raised their maximum interstate speed limits from 70 mi/h to 75 mi/h, 80 mi/h and even 85 mi/h. However, understanding the effect that these higher speed limits have had on the frequency and severity of crashes using traditional before and after analyses has been difficult due to possible temporal shifts in driver behavior, and potential changes in vehicle safety technology and highway safety features. Using multi-year data from before and after higher speed limits were instituted on Kansas freeways, random parameters models of crash frequency and resulting injury severity were esti-mated. Regarding the frequency of crashes, the findings showed that the higher speed lim-its did not have a significant effect in the mean number of crashes on the 253 studied roadway segments. For injury severity, model-estimation results in one-and two-vehicle crashes show that the factors affecting driver-injury severities have changed before and after the speed limit increase, but changes were also observed in the years before the speed limit increases and the years after. However, using pre-speed-limit-increase model estima-tion results to predict post-speed-limit-increase injury-severity distributions it was found that the aggregate effect of the changing influences of explanatory variables on average injury severities was relatively small. While the injury-severity estimation results make it difficult to attribute any temporal shifts in parameter values to the increased speed limit, there was a significant increase in the probability of rollover crashes that suggests the higher speed limits may have had some contributory effect on injury severities in single -vehicle crashes. (c) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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