PEDESTRIAN SAFETY RESEARCH IN JAPAN

PEDESTRIANS ACCOUNT FOR ABOUT 37% OF THE TRAFFIC ACCIDENT FATALITIES IN JAPAN, AND THIS HIGH RATE IS STILL INCREASING. PEDESTRIAN SAFETY RESEARCH IS DISCUSSED, INCLUDING ENERGY ABSORBING STRUCTURES ON VEHICLES, STUDY OF ACCIDENT STATISTICS INVOLVING PEDESTRIANS, MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS OF PEDESTRIANS, AND STUDY OF PEDESTRIAN BEHAVIOR. /HSL/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • pp 63-70, 7 REF
• Corporate Authors:

  Martin Marietta Corporation

  Tech Inf Center
  ,   United States 
• Authors:
  • Watanabe, A
• Publication Date: 1971

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Energy absorbing materials; Mathematical analysis; Pedestrian vehicle crashes; Pedestrians; Safety
• Old TRIS Terms: Energy absorbers
• Subject Areas: Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00223588
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Highway Safety Literature
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 3 1971 12:00AM