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Title:

ANALYSIS OF FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO "WALKING ALONG ROADWAY" CRASHES

Accession Number:

00771171

Record Type:

Component

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Order URL: http://worldcat.org/isbn/0309070724

Abstract:

There are a variety of factors widely acknowledged to have an impact on the risk of pedestrian motor-vehicle injuries. The factors that have been most extensively researched are geometric characteristics of the road, including the presence of sidewalks. In relevant epidemiological research, however, factors relating to demographics and neighborhood characteristics have been alluded to but not sufficiently researched. A case-control methodology has been used and conditional and binary logistic models have been applied to determine the effects of cross-sectional roadway design attributes and socioeconomic and other census block-group data on the likelihood that a site is a crash site. Analyzed were 47 crash sites and 94 comparison sites. Physical design factors found to be associated with a significantly higher likelihood of being a crash site are a higher speed limit; the lack of wide, grassy walkable areas; and the absence of sidewalks. When these roadway factors are controlled for, nongeometric factors associated with a significantly higher likelihood of being a crash site are high levels of unemployment, older housing stock, lower proportions of families within households, and more single parents. This information suggests that some neighborhoods may, due to increased exposure or specific types of exposure, be especially appropriate sites for pedestrian safety measures such as sidewalks, lower-speed roadway designs, and the addition of wide, grassy shoulders.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1674, Pedestrian and Bicycle Research 1999.

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

McMahon, P J
Duncan, C
Stewart, J R
Zegeer, C V
Khattak, A J

Pagination:

p. 41-48

Publication Date:

1999

Serial:

Transportation Research Record

Issue Number: 1674
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0361-1981

ISBN:

0309070724

Features:

Figures (1) ; References (13) ; Tables (5)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Family size; Older housing; Single parents

Subject Areas:

Design; Economics; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Society; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Oct 14 1999 12:00AM

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