Highlights Quasi-induced exposure (QIE) method assumes not-at-fault drivers in a crash represent the driving population. The QIE representativeness was tested using Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) and National Occupant Protection Use Survey (NOPUS). The other not-at-fault drivers excluding the first not-at-fault drivers in three-or-more vehicle crashes (D3_other) in FARS did not differ from observed drivers in NOPUS. D3_other drivers in FARS represents the driving population at the time of crash.

    Abstract Introduction:The quasi-induced exposure (QIE) method has been widely implemented into traffic safety research. One of the key assumptions of QIE method is that not-at-fault drivers represent the driving population at the time of a crash. Recent studies have validated the QIE representative assumption using not-at-fault drivers from three-or-more vehicle crashes (excluding the first not-at-fault drivers; D3_other) as the reference group in single state crash databases. However, it is unclear if the QIE representativeness assumption is valid on a national scale and is a representative sample of driving population in the United States. The aims of this study were to assess the QIE representativeness assumption on a national scale and to evaluate if D3_other could serve as a representative sample of the U.S. driving population. Method: Using the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) and the National Occupant Protection Use Survey (NOPUS), distributions of driver gender, age, vehicle type, time, and roadway type among the not-at-fault drivers in clean two-vehicle crashes, the first not-at-fault drivers in three-or-more-vehicle crashes, and the remaining not-at-fault drivers in three-or-more vehicle crashes were compared to the driver population observed in NOPUS. Results: The results showed that with respect to driver gender, vehicle type, time, and roadway type, drivers among D3_other did not show statistical significant difference from NOPUS observations. The age distribution of D3_other driver was not practically different to NOPUS observations. Conclusions: Overall, we conclude that D3_other drivers in FARS represents the driving population at the time of the crash. Practical applications: Our study provides a solid foundation for future studies to utilize D3_other as the reference group to validate the QIE representativeness assumption and has potential to increase the generalizability of future FARS studies.


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    Titel :

    Validation of not-at-fault driver representativeness assumption for quasi-induced exposure using U.S. national traffic databases


    Beteiligte:
    Shen, Sijun (Autor:in) / Pope, Caitlin N. (Autor:in) / Stamatiadis, Nikiforos (Autor:in) / Zhu, Motao (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2019-09-23


    Format / Umfang :

    7 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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