The frequent rear-end accidents on freeway result in a huge loss. According to the accident data of Changzhang freeway within three years and the comparative analysis of other literatures, the coinciding conclusion is reached that the incidence of the rear-end accident on freeways is the highest. Hence this paper analyzes every important index of the rear-end accident by descriptive statistics, and then classifies the index recorded in accidents into four categories: human, vehicle, freeway, and surroundings. The correspondence analysis of multivariate statistics theory is applied to analyzing the most direct cause of various accident types, as so to seek the measures preventing the rear-end accident. On the basis of that the relevant policy measures are proposed to avoid the accident.


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    Title :

    Causes of Rear-End Accidents on Changzhang Freeway Based on Correspondence Analysis


    Contributors:
    Li, Min (author) / Zha, Weixiong (author)

    Conference:

    Third International Conference on Transportation Engineering (ICTE) ; 2011 ; Chengdu, China


    Published in:

    ICTE 2011 ; 3110-3115


    Publication date :

    2011-07-13




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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