Integrating Police Reports with Geographic Information System Resources for Uncovering Multidimensional Patterns of Pedestrian Crashes in Denmark

Promoting walking goes a long way in contributing to the sustainability and health of future cities and regions, and improving pedestrian safety is essential for building more sustainable and healthier communities. As the problem is multidimensional in nature, this study looks at patterns of pedestrian crashes with a multi dimensional perspective that goes beyond the traditional investigation of pedestrian characteristics and behaviour by analysing the effect of the built environment, the land use and the traffic conditions at the crash location. Moreover, this study goes beyond the analysis of traditional police reports by integrating them with geographic information system resources that are becoming increasingly available worldwide.This study analyses a sample of 7469 crashes between a pedestrian and another road user that occurred in Denmark between 2006 and 2015. The crash locations were geocoded and matched to a detailed traffic network, a transport planning model, and several resources detailing building and land use composition. Latent class analysis was applied to uncover patterns of pedestrian crashes for both the fully identified records and the substantial amount of hit-and-run records. Findings from this study reveal a major red thread in the lack of hazard awareness for both pedestrians and road users and suggest solutions from both the behavioural and the infrastructure perspectives:major needs are (i) educating pedestrians about the risks related to drinking and then walking along major roads in the darkness, (ii) making crossings for pedestrians and approaches for road users easier to understand and to access in order to reduce unnecessary conflicts, and (iii) designing traffic calming solutions around major shopping and leisure locations in dense city centres.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANB20 Standing Committee on Safety Data, Analysis and Evaluation.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Prato, Carlo G
  • Kaplan, Sigal
  • Patrier, Alexandre
  • Rasmussen, Thomas K
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2017-1-8 to 2017-1-12
• Date: 2017

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 18p
• Monograph Title: TRB 96th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Built environment; Crash causes; Geographic information systems; Land use; Pedestrian vehicle crashes; Police reports; Traffic characteristics
• Uncontrolled Terms: Crash patterns
• Geographic Terms: Denmark
• Subject Areas: Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01623068
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 17-01803
• Files: PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Jan 24 2017 3:15PM