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dc.contributor.author Devasurendra, KW
dc.contributor.author Perera, L
dc.contributor.author Bandara, JMSJ
dc.contributor.editor Pasindu, HR
dc.date.accessioned 2022-06-08T04:31:19Z
dc.date.available 2022-06-08T04:31:19Z
dc.date.issued 2014-08
dc.identifier.citation Devasurendra, K.W., Perera, L., & Bandara, J.M.S.J. (2014). Trends in heavy vehicle crashes in Sri Lanka [Abstract]. In H.R. Pasindu (Ed.), Proceedings of the Transportation Research Forum 2014 (p. 25). Department of Civil Engineering, University of Moratuwa. https://uom.lk/sites/default/files/civil/files/TRF%202014_0.pdf en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://dl.lib.uom.lk/handle/123/18171
dc.description.abstract Around 2,250 number of people die annually in Sri Lanka from road accidents. In 2013, the heavy vehicle percentage of the country is 8% but its involvement in fatal crashes is 21%. Therefore it is evident that heavy vehicles are playing a major role in fatal crashes. Finding the causes for these accidents and finding proper engineering and other solutions to minimize them have become of great importance. In order to find out the critical conditions and contributory factors for the severity of heavy vehicle crashes, a logistic regression analysis was carried out using accident details of heavy vehicles for the year 2013 extracted from Sri Lankan Police Accident Database. In the analysis, accident severity was considered as the dependent variable and crash factor for severity, vehicle ownership, validity of license, weather condition, road surface condition, location type, time of accident, urban\rural condition, light condition, road surface condition were considered as independent variables. Accidents occurrence at ‘Y’ junctions, SLTB bus involvement, drivers with probationary driving license, hitting a fixed object were found to be as having a significant effect on the severity of heavy vehicle crashes. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Department of Civil Engineering, University of Moratuwa. en_US
dc.relation.uri https://uom.lk/sites/default/files/civil/files/TRF%202014_0.pdf en_US
dc.subject Heavy vehicle crashes en_US
dc.subject Logistic regression en_US
dc.title Trends in heavy vehicle crashes in Sri Lanka en_US
dc.type Conference-Abstract en_US
dc.identifier.faculty Engineering en_US
dc.identifier.department Department of Civil Engineering en_US
dc.identifier.year 2014 en_US
dc.identifier.conference Transport Research Forum 2014 en_US
dc.identifier.place Colombo en_US
dc.identifier.pgnos p. 25 en_US
dc.identifier.proceeding Proceedings of the Transport Research Forum 2014 en_US
dc.identifier.email Bandara@uom.lk en_US
dc.identifier.email loshakap@uom.lk en_US
dc.identifier.email kaushanwd@gmail.com en_US


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