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Title:

Growth of the Old Population and Traffic Accidents in Transfer Facilities in Korea

Accession Number:

01123181

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

The purpose of this paper is to reconsider the relationship between advanced age and traffic accidents so that suitable policies to accommodate the elderly may be established. Changes in traffic accident rates in relation to the number of drivers were estimated. In addition, the effect of traffic accidents according to age was also analyzed. Previous analyses of simple accident data and elderly drivers' physical frailty have generally concluded that older drivers increased the accident rate and that the driving privileges of older drivers should be limited. However, our study concludes that the accident rate of older drivers decreased over time. In addition, we found that older drivers tend to decrease the number of traffic accidents and the number of deaths due to traffic accidents.

Monograph Accession #:

01120148

Report/Paper Numbers:

09-0208

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Kang, Kyungwoo
Oh, Jaehak
Nam, Seungsuk
Jongki, Roh

Pagination:

11p

Publication Date:

2009

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 88th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2009-1-11 to 2009-1-15
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

DVD

Features:

Figures (2) ; References (11) ; Tables (3)

Geographic Terms:

Korean Peninsula

Subject Areas:

Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2009 Paper #09-0208

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Jan 30 2009 4:30PM