Research Article

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

Table 5

Significant main effects for rear-end crash risk.

VariablesStatistical resultsDummy variablesRear-end crash risk
MeanStd. Dev.

Day-of-weekF = 58.1, Holiday0.00280.0031
Workday0.00320.0033

Time-of-dayF = 18.5, Off peak0.00300.0033
Morning peak0.00340.0033
Evening peak0.00320.0032

Light conditionF = 8.8, Daytime0.00320.0032
Nighttime0.00300.0034
Weather conditionF = 0.7,

Traffic densityF = 1655.0, High0.00490.0027
Median0.00490.0033
Low0.00210.0029