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Title:

Assessing the Effectiveness of Built Environment-Based Safety Measures by Urban and Rural Area for Reducing the Non-Motorist Crashes

Accession Number:

01764160

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

Built environment (BE)-based safety measures are usually implemented for reducing the non-motorist crashes in urban and rural area. However, their usefulness differing the urban and rural area were not widely explored in literature. Therefore, this study was explored the effectiveness of built environment-based safety measures in urban and rural settings. The study used four years’ (2015-2018) non-motorist (pedestrian and bicyclist) crash data of Florida and examined the effect of built-environment based safety measures such as sidewalk, distance from the road, bike lane, barrier, land use mix. In this study urban and rural area were classified by applying the multivariate clustering method. The study used the negative binomial and geographically weighted Poisson regression (GWPR) for understanding the effects of BE factors assuming their spatial heterogeneity. The study finds that building the sidewalk only, and existence of intersection expose the people to crash incidents in urban areas while traffic volume works for increasing non-motorist crashes in the rural areas. The analysis also reveals that combinedly sidewalk and barrier can reduce the risks of non-motorist crashes. Signalized intersection also reduces the effect of high traffic volume on the frequency of crashes. Higher percentage of commercial Land uses (LU) in high mixed LU are helpful for ensuring the safety of pedestrian and cyclists. This study findings will be supporting for implementing the BE based safety measures considering their combined effectiveness as well as the urban and rural characteristics of the area.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ACS10 Standing Committee on Transportation Safety Management Systems.

Report/Paper Numbers:

TRBAM-21-04448

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

Authors:

Shioma, Shefa Arabia
Tokey, Ahmad Ilderim
Uddin, Muhammad Salaha

Pagination:

20p

Publication Date:

2021

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 100th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2021-1-5 to 2021-1-29
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board; Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Maps; References (50) ; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Florida

Subject Areas:

Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2021 Paper #TRBAM-21-04448

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 23 2020 11:21AM