Preliminary Assessment of the Crash-Reducing Effectiveness of Passenger CarDaytime Running Lamps (DRLs)

摘要

The effectiveness of daytime running lamps, DRLs, for passenger cars, areexamined using three different crash types, two vehicle different direction fatal crashes, two vehicle non-fatal crashes, and single vehicle fatal pedestrian crashes. Two statistical techniques, the odds ratio and simple odds techniques are used to analyze the data.