Investigating the Effects of Traffic, Socioeconomic, and Land Use Characteristics on Pedestrian and Bicycle Crashes: A Case Study of Melbourne, Australia
Despite the benefits of walking and cycling as a means of transport, pedestrians and cyclists are highly at risk of road crashes. This study presents an analysis of pedestrian and bicycle crashes using data from Melbourne, Australia. The paper contributes to macro-level safety studies by providing further empirical evidence on the various factors that influence the occurrence of pedestrian and bicycle crashes at the planning level. Using the negative binomial (NB) model, various planning factors associated with total, serious injury and other injury crashes were examined. We found that vehicle kilometres travelled (VKT), percentage of old population and percentage of households without vehicles have a significant and positive correlation with the number of pedestrian and bicycle crashes. Mixed land use and residential land use were also found to have a positive association with number of pedestrian crashes. Percentage of households with weekly income <$1,000 and percentage of young population were found to have significant and negative correlation with number of bicycle crashes. Results have planning and policy implications aimed at encouraging the use of sustainable modes of transport while ensuring their safety.
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Supplemental Notes:
- This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANB20 Standing Committee on Safety Data, Analysis and Evaluation.
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Authors:
- Amoh-Gyimah, Richard
- Sarvi, Majid
- Saberi, Meead
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Conference:
- Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting
- Location: Washington DC, United States
- Date: 2016-1-10 to 2016-1-14
- Date: 2016
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Web
- Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 15p
- Monograph Title: TRB 95th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Bicycling; Crash characteristics; Crash injuries; Cyclists; Demographics; Injury severity; Land use; Pedestrian safety; Risk assessment
- Geographic Terms: Melbourne (Australia)
- Subject Areas: Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors; I80: Accident Studies; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01588763
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: 16-1931
- Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
- Created Date: Jan 29 2016 9:32AM