<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The nature of urban and rural accidents has been different from each other in some of the factors and even the severity of damage rate, mayhem, and death. In this research, using statistical methods and binary logistic regression model, we have addressed to analyze important parameters such as age, gender, education level, the color of the pedestrian dress, season of accident, time of accident, the speed of the vehicle colliding with pedestrians and road surface conditions at the time of accident on the way of death (at the scene of the incident or in the hospital) pedestrians who have been traumatized. After the creation of the binary logistic regression model, it was determined that only the parameters of speed and the accident time have been significant in the level less than 5%. And other parameters such as age, gender, the season of accident occurrence, the color of the pedestrian dress, road surface conditions and education level had no significant effect in terms of statistical on the incidence of mortality arising from a pedestrian accident with the motor vehicle. The results revealed that by adopting decisions related to the traffic calming, attention to passages lighting and brightness the mortality rate of a pedestrian due to the urban accidents can be reduced.</p></abstract>

The nature of urban and rural accidents has been different from each other in some of the factors and even the severity of damage rate, mayhem, and death. In this research, using statistical methods and binary logistic regression model, we have addressed to analyze important parameters such as age, gender, education level, the color of the pedestrian dress, season of accident, time of accident, the speed of the vehicle colliding with pedestrians and road surface conditions at the time of accident on the way of death (at the scene of the incident or in the hospital) pedestrians who have been traumatized. After the creation of the binary logistic regression model, it was determined that only the parameters of speed and the accident time have been significant in the level less than 5%. And other parameters such as age, gender, the season of accident occurrence, the color of the pedestrian dress, road surface conditions and education level had no significant effect in terms of statistical on the incidence of mortality arising from a pedestrian accident with the motor vehicle. The results revealed that by adopting decisions related to the traffic calming, attention to passages lighting and brightness the mortality rate of a pedestrian due to the urban accidents can be reduced.

Modeling and Analyzing the Factors Affecting the Mortality of Pedestrians in Urban Accidents

Modelling in Civil Environmental Engineering

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The nature of urban and rural accidents has been different from each other in some of the factors and even the severity of damage rate, mayhem, and death. In...

Modeling and Analyzing the Factors Affecting the Mortality of Pedestrians in Urban Accidents

Publicado en línea: 02 mar 2019

Páginas: 10 - 21

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mmce-2018-0010

Palabras clave
accident, pedestrian, speed, urbanization

© 2018 Ahmet Tortum et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Modeling and Analyzing the Factors Affecting the Mortality of Pedestrians in Urban Accidents

Publicado en línea: 02 mar 2019

Páginas: 10 - 21

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mmce-2018-0010

Palabras claveaccident, pedestrian, speed, urbanization

© 2018 Ahmet Tortum et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Palabras clave
accident, pedestrian, speed, urbanization