Pursuing urban sustainable mobility: analyzing the impacts of road design in pedestrian casualties in the city of Lisbon (Portugal)

The individual use of private vehicles is rapidly and constantly increasing in everyday life in post-Fordist cities, promoting the excessive fragmentation of local communities and producing immediate impacts on the public health. In 2008 more than 37,000 deaths were recorded as a result of road accidents in the U.S. and over 39,000 in the European Union. That is why road safety is nowadays a matter of crucial concern across Europe, and therefore considered a priority area of intervention by the European Commission. In the case of the city of Lisbon (Portugal), the riverfront constitutes a place of confluence of major road infrastructures considered essential to the everyday metropolitan mobility not only during daytime but also during nighttime. This might lead the authors to hypothesize that the verified elevated number of accidents (involving not only vehicles as well as pedestrians) is directly related to several structural factors that together characterize the area of downtown Lisbon. The present study analyzes road accidents in this area of the Portuguese capital by providing a detailed statistical analysis and a thorough geo-referenced representation of all the accidents involving pedestrians in this area using geographic information referring to the years of 2006 to 2009.

• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://www.piarc.org/en/order-library/13949-en-Proceedings%20of%20the%20XXIVth%20World%20Road%20Congress,%20Mexico%20-%202011.htm
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission of the World Road Association – PIARC.
• Corporate Authors:

  World Road Association (PIARC)

  La Grande Arche, Paroi Nord, Niveau 5
  F-92055 La Defense Cedex,   France 
• Authors:
  • Meirinhos, V
  • Nofre, J
  • Puig-Farre, J
• Conference:
  • 24th World Road Congress
  • Location: Mexico City , Mexico
  • Date: 2011-9-26 to 2011-9-30
• Publication Date: 2011

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 11p
• Monograph Title: 24th World Road Congress Proceedings: Roads for a Better Life: Mobility, Sustainability and Development

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alcohol abuse; Highway design; Highway factors in crashes; Pedestrian safety; Pedestrian vehicle crashes; Pedestrians
• Geographic Terms: Lisbon (Portugal)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01505793
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 2840602679
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 27 2014 11:31AM