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Title:

A Zonal Level Safety Investigation of Pedestrian Crashes in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Accession Number:

01624592

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

Improving pedestrian safety is essential due to the increased number of these crashes in the city of Riyadh, the capital of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In 2015 the road traffic crashes caused 667 fatalities, 175 of them were pedestrian, i.e., over one fourth of road traffic fatalities were among pedestrians. This paper examines the contributing factors that cause pedestrian crashes in Riyadh using 2,131 crash records for the period from 2013 to 2015 based on macro level safety analysis. That is to determine the association between traffic volume, land use, socio-demographic and roadway characteristics factors, and the occurrence of pedestrian crashes. Three negative binomial models for total, serious injury, and fatal pedestrian crashes were developed. The results showed that there are many significant factors for those crashes. The number of pedestrian crashes increases when the vehicle-kilometers-traveled, population density, number of traffic signals, proportion of collector roads and commercial area increased. In contrast, the governmental and agricultural land-use type and the middle ages between 35 and 59 years old have a negative relationship with pedestrian crashes. These significant factors are consistence in all models of all severities of pedestrian crashes. Other variables that affect total pedestrian crash occurrences are different from those affecting fatal or serious pedestrian crash. Fatal crashes increase when there are more low speed roads and less vehicle ownership in the zone. In addition, serious injury crashes had a positive association with proportion of non-Saudi nationalities. Also, several implications for pedestrian safety policies in the Riyadh are suggested based on the results.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE90 Standing Committee on Transportation in the Developing Countries. Alternate title: Zonal-Level Safety Investigation of Pedestrian Crashes in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Monograph Accession #:

01618707

Report/Paper Numbers:

17-06178

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Alkahtani, Khalid F
Abdel-Aty, Mohamed
Lee, Jaeyoung

Pagination:

16p

Publication Date:

2017

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2017-1-8 to 2017-1-12
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Maps; References; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Riyadh (Saudi Arabia)

Subject Areas:

Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-06178

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 8 2016 12:30PM