Citation

Chung YS, Chiou YC, Lin CH. Anal. Meth. Accid. Res. 2015; 7: 16-28.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.amar.2015.04.003

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Unbiased estimates are crucial to providing correct information that is required in accident management. Whereas earlier studies have proposed various approaches to reduce the adverse effects of unobserved heterogeneity, this study proposes accelerated failure time (AFT) models of accident duration with flexible distributions of the error term and the frailty parameter. A two-stage residual inclusion (2SRI) method for identifying the effects of endogenous variable in the nonlinear AFT models is adopted. The Taiwanese freeway accident databases were used to evaluate the applicability of the proposed approach. The results reveal that AFT models with a non-monotone Log-logistic error term distribution and a gamma frailty parameter distribution outperformed those with other assumed distributions. Number of lanes blocked was found as a significant endogenous variable to accident duration; the endogenous variable effect, if not accounted for or accounted by traditional two-stage least squares estimators, would underestimate the effect of the number of lanes blocked on accident duration.

Language: en