title: Determinants of injuries in passenger vessel accidents.
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.
authors.affiliation: C Y. Tung International Centre for Maritime Studies, Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.
authors.forename: Tsz Leung
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Yip
authors.affiliation: Marine Policy Center, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA. Electronic address: djin@whoi.edu.
authors.forename: Di
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.affiliation: Maritime Institute, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529, USA. Electronic address: wktalley@odu.edu.
authors.forename: Wayne K
authors.initials: WK
authors.lastname: Talley
mesh_terms: D000059:Accidents / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012307:Risk Factors; D012767:Ships; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology*
keywords: Ferry; Ocean cruise; River cruise; Vessel accidents