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Exploring the impacts of built environment on pedestrian injury severity involving distracted driving.

J Safety Res

February 2022

School of Planning, and Department of Civil and Resource Engineering, 5410 Spring Garden Road, P.O. Box 15000 Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H4R2, Canada.

Introduction: This study develops an injury severity model that demonstrates level of pedestrians' injury severity during pedestrian-vehicle collisions, specifically those involving distracted driving.

Method: It uses data from a police-reported collision database that contains pedestrian-vehicle collision information in Nova Scotia, Canada. A latent segmentation-based ordered logit (LSOL) model is developed in this paper that comprehensively examines the influence of built environment characteristics on pedestrian injury severity.

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