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Abstract

This study explored factors affecting traffic accidents in roadway segments with and without lighting systems using a random parameter negative binomial model. This study sought to make up for a shortcoming of the fixed parameter model that constrained the estimated parameters to be fixed across observations, by applying random parameters that can take into account unobserved heterogeneity. Three variables had a random parameter among nine significant variables in segments with lighting systems, while seven of the eleven significant variables in a segment without a lighting system had random parameters. The different influence of interstate highway geometrics on vehicle crashes with and without lighting systems found through this study considering unobserved heterogeneity may hopefully help reduce accident frequencies and consider installation of lighting systems on interstate highways in the future.

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• http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/jat/2017/4740532.pdf under the license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/4740532 under the license cc-by

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• http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/jat/2017/4740532.pdf,

https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jat/2017/4740532,

https://core.ac.uk/display/88193485,

https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2598844815 under the license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/4740532,

https://doaj.org/toc/0197-6729,

https://doaj.org/toc/2042-3195