Determinants of injuries in passenger vessel accidents

Tsz Leung Yip; Di Jin; Wayne K Talley

doi:10.1016/j.aap.2015.05.025

Determinants of injuries in passenger vessel accidents

Accid Anal Prev. 2015 Sep:82:112-7. doi: 10.1016/j.aap.2015.05.025. Epub 2015 Jun 9.

Authors

Tsz Leung Yip¹, Di Jin², Wayne K Talley³

Affiliations

¹ C Y. Tung International Centre for Maritime Studies, Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.
² Marine Policy Center, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA. Electronic address: djin@whoi.edu.
³ Maritime Institute, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529, USA. Electronic address: wktalley@odu.edu.

PMID: 26070017
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2015.05.025

Abstract

This paper investigates determinants of crew and passenger injuries in passenger vessel accidents. Crew and passenger injury equations are estimated for ferry, ocean cruise, and river cruise vessel accidents, utilizing detailed data of individual vessel accidents that were investigated by the U.S. Coast Guard during the time period 2001-2008. The estimation results provide empirical evidence (for the first time in the literature) that crew injuries are determinants of passenger injuries in passenger vessel accidents.

Keywords: Ferry; Ocean cruise; River cruise; Vessel accidents.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Accidents / statistics & numerical data*
Humans
Regression Analysis
Risk Factors
Ships*
United States / epidemiology
Wounds and Injuries / epidemiology*