Assessing Safety Level of Bus Stops in the Absence of Crash Data

Road safety is a major concern in emerging countries such as India and bus stops are the major points of concern as they act as interfaces where the pedestrians interact with transit vehicles. However, it is a challenge to evaluate bus stop safety in the context of emerging nations as reliable crash data near bus stops are generally unavailable. This paper presents a four-step methodology to assess the safety level of bus stops by analyzing the existing bus stop facilities in the absence of crash data. The methodology has been applied to evaluate the safety level of 45 existing bus stops located along a typical urban corridor in the Kolkata metropolitan city, India. The unsafe acts were identified and causal factors were classified in terms of design and management deficiencies, safety levels of bus stops along the corridor were assessed, prioritization of the bus stops was carried out and appropriate recommendations were made to improve the safety levels. While the methodology developed in this study is expected to be of interest to the researchers in the field of public transport safety, the application of the methodology as demonstrated in this paper is likely to encourage the practitioners to apply a similar approach to identify safety lacunas at bus stops and take appropriate measures for improvement.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE90 Standing Committee on Transportation in the Developing Countries.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Cheranchery, Munavar Fairooz
  • Bhattacharyya, Kinjal
  • Maitra, Bhargab
  • Boltze, Manfred
• 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: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Maps; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 16p
• Monograph Title: TRB 95th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bus stops; Evaluation and assessment; Methodology; Pedestrian safety; Recommendations; Transit safety
• Geographic Terms: Kolkata (India)
• Subject Areas: Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; Terminals and Facilities; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01589111
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 16-0702
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 1 2016 9:27AM