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Title: RECOMMENDATIONS FOR REDUCING NONCOLLISION BUS PASSENGER INJURIES
Accession Number: 00667618
Record Type: Component
Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: Many bus-related injuries do not involve crashes with other vehicles, pedestrians, or fixed objects. These noncollision accidents occur when passengers are riding buses, boarding and alighting buses, and standing or walking at or near bus stops. Data for more than 5,000 bus passenger injuries from the Washington (D.C.) Metropolitan Area Transit Authority were analyzed, which revealed that one-third of all noncollision passenger injuries occurred during boarding and alighting and another one-fourth occurred during stopping. Forty-five percent of the injuries on stopping buses took place as passengers were getting up or sitting down or while they were seated. One-third of the alighting injuries happened when passengers tripped or slipped. The passenger injury rate fell by one-third between 1976 and 1990. A number of measures may be used to improve passenger safety. These measures include interior and seat design to minimize the effects of passenger impact against interior surfaces, far-side bus stops and adequate passenger loading areas, proper bus driver screening and education, appropriate transit agency policies and practices, and organized safety and security reporting.
Supplemental Notes: This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1433, Public Transportation: Bus, Rail, Ridesharing, Paratransit Services, and Transit Security. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved
Monograph Title: Public transportation: bus, rail, ridesharing, paratransit services, and transit security Monograph Accession #: 01401241
Language: English
Authors: Fruin, JohnHuang, Herman FZegeer, Charles VSmith Sr, Norris EPagination: p. 41-48
Publication Date: 1994
Serial: ISBN: 0309055105
Features: Figures
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TRT Terms: Uncontrolled Terms: Old TRIS Terms: Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Motor Carriers; Passenger Transportation; Policy; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Oct 7 1994 12:00AM
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