Research Article

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

Table 4

Model results for W-beam barriers crashes in 2018-2019.

VariablesCoefficientt-statPseudoelasticities (%)
Severe injury (SI)Minor injury (MI)No injury (NI)

Constant (SI)−1.809−6.47
Constant (MI)−2.094−6.84
Random parameter (normally distributed)
Cloudy indicator (1 if yes; otherwise, 0) (MI)−2.878−2.005.6514.771.85
Standard deviation of the parameter density function2.4682.11
Novice driving experience indicator (1 if 3–10 years; otherwise, 0) (MI)−3.593−2.370.13−3.16−1.63
Standard deviation of the parameter density function2.7002.05
Heterogeneity in the mean of random parameter
Cloudy indicator (1 if yes; otherwise, 0) (MI): dark-lighted indicator (1 if yes; otherwise, 0)2.3261.74
Novice driving experience indicator (1 if 3–10 years; otherwise, 0) (MI): weekends indicator (1 if yes; otherwise, 0)2.3762.33
Novice driving experience indicator (1 if 3–10 years; otherwise, 0) (MI): dark-lighted indicator (1 if yes; otherwise, 0)3.5162.32
Heterogeneity in the variance of random parameter
Cloudy indicator (1 if yes; otherwise, 0) (MI): road without isolation indicator (1 if yes; otherwise, 0)0.7751.70
Cloudy indicator (1 if yes; otherwise, 0) (MI): intersection indicator (1 if yes; otherwise, 0)1.2122.12
Driver characteristics
Rookie driving experience indicator (1 if below 3 years; otherwise, 0) (MI)−1.097−1.842.12−7.071.56
Expert driving experience indicator (1 if above 15 years; otherwise, 0) (SI)−0.758−1.93−11.541.251.20
Driver under alcohol influence indicator (1 if yes; otherwise, 0) (MI)3.9974.65−24.5117.44−18.75
Driver under alcohol influence indicator (1 if yes; otherwise, 0) (NI)1.0201.98−8.94−3.366.74
Vehicle characteristics
Improper braking and steering indicator (1 if yes; otherwise, 0) (SI)−1.515−5.18−49.085.785.28
Speeding indicator (1 if yes otherwise, 0) (MI)−1.276−2.262.17−16.431.82
Improper lane changing indicator (1 if yes; otherwise, 0) (NI)0.8652.77−10.95−7.523.10
Roadway characteristics
Intersection indicator (1 if yes; otherwise, 0) (MI)−0.799−2.261.83−13.451.55
Crash characteristics
Head-on collision indicator (1 if yes; otherwise, 0) (MI)−4.872−2.541.13−42.250.60
Low visibility indicator (1 if below 50 meters; otherwise, 0) (SI)2.3131.9919.40−3.85−4.26
Low visibility indicator (1 if below 50 meters; otherwise, 0) (NI)2.1931.98−16.47−12.195.60
Medium visibility indicator (1 if 100–200 meters; otherwise, 0) (SI)−1.113−2.47−22.432.201.71
Medium visibility indicator (1 if 100–200 meters; otherwise, 0) (MI)−1.338−2.444.22−15.793.20
Temporal characteristics
Weekends indicator (1 if yes; otherwise, 0) (SI)−0.579−1.73−13.851.271.41

Number of observations above and below zero generated from the random parametersAbove zeroBelow zero

Cloudy indicator (1 if yes; otherwise, 0) (MI)15.32%84.68%
Novice driving experience indicator (1 if 3–10 years; otherwise, 0) (MI)19.78%80.22%
Goodness-of-fit measures
McFadden R-squared0.355

, , ==> significance at 0.99, 0.95, and 0.90 level of confidence, respectively.