NONMOTORIZED-MOTORIZED TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS AND CONFLICTS ON DELHI STREETS
The city of Delhi had more than 1,900 traffic fatalities in 1993. Delhi police firsthand information reports show that most of these fatalities involved heavy vehicles striking pedestrians and bicyclists at midblock locations. Results reveal that Delhi has many nonmotorized traffic entity fatalities given its degree of traffic homogeneity and total traffic fatalities as compared with other places in the world. To find heterogeneous traffic characteristics that may significantly enhance traffic safety and operations, a heterogeneous traffic conflict study for 14 Delhi midblock sites followed. The sites ranged from ones with many fatalities to one with none. To evaluate the association between heterogeneous conflict rates at each site and respective site fatalities, a Spearman rank correlation produced a measure. A positive correlation of 0.14 exists between conflict rates and fatalities for all traffic entities.
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- This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1487, Nonmotorized Transportation Research, Issues, and Use. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved
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Authors:
- Fazio, Joseph
- Tiwari, Geetam
- Publication Date: 1995
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: p. 68-74
- Monograph Title: Nonmotorized transportation research, issues, and use
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Serial:
- Transportation Research Record
- Issue Number: 1487
- Publisher: Transportation Research Board
- ISSN: 0361-1981
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Bicycle crashes; Fatalities; Heavy vehicles; Nonmotorized transportation; Pedestrian vehicle crashes; Traffic conflicts; Traffic crashes
- Geographic Terms: Delhi (India)
- Subject Areas: Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors; I81: Accident Statistics;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00713609
- Record Type: Publication
- ISBN: 0309061504
- Files: TRIS, TRB
- Created Date: Nov 28 1995 12:00AM