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Title:

Characterizing Pedestrian Crashes Along an UrbanIzation Gradient: A Case Study in Greensboro, North Carolina

Accession Number:

01590690

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

Urbanization, a process of either converting rural communities to urban areas or expanding existing urban areas, is often desired because it often improves global, national, and regional socio-economic conditions. However, studies have also found that increase in the degree of urbanization, which is indicated by the proportion of impervious surface, has resulted in not only environmental failures but also increases in traffic accidents and decreases in pedestrian safety. Therefore, identifying the spatial and temporal patterns of pedestrian crashes as well as their driving factors along the urbanization gradient of a city is essential to facilitate an evaluation of the urbanization of a city in the context of pedestrian safety and to improve pedestrian safety along the corridors to/from a city center. In this study, the authors proposed a ring-based analytical methodology to analyze the pedestrian crash data in 2007-2012 of the City of Greensboro along its urbanization gradient. They found that there was a strong quadratic correlation between the number of pedestrian crashes and the degree of urbanization. In addition, the authors also found that the impacts of different factors on pedestrian severity along the urbanization gradient were not the same. Findings from this research call for ongoing identification of the spatial and temporal patterns of pedestrian crashes in accordance with the degree of urbanization for this city and others, which could be undertaken using the proposed ring-based analytical methodology.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANF10 Standing Committee on Pedestrians.

Monograph Accession #:

01584066

Report/Paper Numbers:

16-4521

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Tran, Trung
Truong, Tram
Meyer, Tyler

Pagination:

19p

Publication Date:

2016

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2016-1-10 to 2016-1-14
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Web

Features:

Figures; Maps; References (28) ; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Greensboro (North Carolina)

Subject Areas:

Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors; I80: Accident Studies; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2016 Paper #16-4521

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 12 2016 6:00PM