Research Article

Quantification of Rear-End Crash Risk and Analysis of Its Influencing Factors Based on a New Surrogate Safety Measure

Table 3

Summary of variables descriptive statistics.

Independent variables (behavioral variables)
VariablesMeanStd. DevMinMax
Duration of car-following event (0.1 s)286.66146.441511010
Mean time headway (s)2.010.770.538.17
Average speed difference (m/s)1.110.750.097.15
Acceleration difference ratio0.910.380.004.08

Independent variables (temporal variables)
VariablesDummy variableCount
Day-of-weekHoliday4200
Workday12705
Time-of-dayOff peak9368
Morning peak3873
Evening peak3664

Independent variables (environmental variables)
VariablesDummy variableCount
Light conditionDaytime12456
Nighttime4449
Weather conditionSunny14587
Rainy2318
Traffic densityHigh1604
Median4495
Low10806

Dependent variables (driving risk)
VariablesMeanStd. DevMinMax
RCRI0.00310.00610.00000.7736