Roadside barriers have proven effective in preventing run-off-road accidents that occurred in mountainous areas. Nonetheless, the influence of variables impacting the severity of injuries resulting from collisions involving distinct types of roadside barriers may diverge. This study delves into the factors that influence the severity of driver’s injuries in crashes encompassing three specific varieties of roadside barriers in mountainous regions, namely, W-beam barriers, flexible barriers, and roadside trees. The evolution of these factors over time is examined through the application of a random parameters logit modeling approach with heterogeneity in means and variances (RPLHMVs). By employing injury-severity data from 2016 to 2019 for the mountainous regions of a city in Southwest China, various potential influencing factors encompassing driver-, vehicle-, road-, and environment-specific characteristics are subjected to statistical analysis. The extent of the impact of identified statistically significant factors on driver’s injury severity is assessed through the computation of pseudoelasticities. The findings reveal distinctions in the outcomes of driver’s injury severity contingent upon the type of roadside barrier encountered during vehicle impacts. To illustrate, collisions involving W-beam barriers are more prone to result in severe injuries. Moreover, the influence of variables determining driver’s injury severity displays noteworthy temporal shifts. Notably, the pseudoelasticities of numerous explanatory variables remain temporally consistent for incidents involving flexible or roadside barriers. In contrast, crashes involving W-beam barriers highlight that solely the speeding indicator demonstrates temporally stable pseudoelasticities. The insights garnered from this investigation offer the potential to contribute to the formulation of fresh guidelines for the design and selection of roadside barriers aimed at mitigating the severity of injuries incurred in crashes within mountainous regions.


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    Titel :

    An Assessment of the Safety Effects of Roadside Barriers on Reducing Mountainous Crash Injury Severity


    Beteiligte:
    Chunhui Zhang (Autor:in) / Yanying Wang (Autor:in) / Keqi Wu (Autor:in) / Le Tian (Autor:in) / Dongdong Song (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2024




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Unbekannt




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