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Modeling injury severities of single and multi-vehicle freeway crashes considering spatiotemporal instability and unobserved heterogeneity

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Pages 234-262 | Received 19 Apr 2022, Accepted 02 Feb 2023, Published online: 21 Feb 2023

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