Growth of the Old Population and Traffic Accidents in Transfer Facilities in Korea

The purpose of this paper is to reconsider the relationship between advanced age and traffic accidents so that suitable policies to accommodate the elderly may be established. Changes in traffic accident rates in relation to the number of drivers were estimated. In addition, the effect of traffic accidents according to age was also analyzed. Previous analyses of simple accident data and elderly drivers' physical frailty have generally concluded that older drivers increased the accident rate and that the driving privileges of older drivers should be limited. However, our study concludes that the accident rate of older drivers decreased over time. In addition, we found that older drivers tend to decrease the number of traffic accidents and the number of deaths due to traffic accidents.

• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Kang, Kyungwoo
  • Oh, Jaehak
  • Nam, Seungsuk
  • Jongki, Roh
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 88th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2009-1-11 to 2009-1-15
• Date: 2009

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: DVD
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 11p
• Monograph Title: TRB 88th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers DVD

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aged drivers; Crash data; Crash rates; Driving cessation; Fatalities; High risk drivers; Policy making; Safety; Traffic crashes
• Geographic Terms: Korean Peninsula
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01123181
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 09-0208
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Mar 13 2009 6:36AM