Personal Exposure Risk Factors in Pedestrian Accidents in Bahrain
Pedestrians are involved in traffic accidents due to many reasons. It is generally thought that personal background of pedestrians has an effect on their involvement rate in road traffic accidents. Identifying these characteristics would lead to a better understanding of pedestrian accident patterns so that the resources in the fields of education, engineering, and enforcement could be used in better ways. This study attempts to test the hypothesis mentioned earlier. The investigated personal background includes the following characteristics: gender, type, age, nationality, and educational background. The data was reduced from vast number of pedestrian injury accident reports in the Kingdom of Bahrain. The actual accident records were categorized according to these characteristics and compared to their exposure risk. It was assumed that the exposure risk, which is the expected number of accidents for each category of the pedestrians, was in proportion to their presence in the pedestrian population. Another study was carried out in parallel to observe the pedestrian characteristics in Bahrain. The results of the two studies were analyzed statistically using Chi-square method to compare the actual to the expected accident frequencies. The whole Kingdom of Bahrain population statistics were used wherever the information on the pedestrian population was not available. The findings revealed that personal characteristics considered in this study have significant influence on pedestrian involvement in traffic accidents. The results also showed that pedestrians with the following characteristics were probably showing risk to exposure to accidents more than other categories: male, young (0-12 years) and old (50 years and over), non-local, and those with low educational backgrounds.
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- Abstract reprinted with permission from Elsevier.
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Authors:
- Al-Madani, H
- Al-Janahi, A
- Publication Date: 2006-4
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Print
- Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: pp. 335-347
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Serial:
- Safety Science
- Volume: 44
- Issue Number: 4
- Publisher: Elsevier
- ISSN: 0925-7535
- Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09257535
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Analysis; Crashes; Demographics; Education; Engineering; Highways; Pedestrians; Risk assessment
- Uncontrolled Terms: Characteristics; Enforcement; Exposure; Personal; Sociodemographics
- Geographic Terms: Bahrain
- Subject Areas: Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; Society; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01049923
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: May 25 2007 10:35AM