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MATEC Web Conf.
Volume 231, 2018
12th International Road Safety Conference GAMBIT 2018 - “Road Innovations for Safety - The National and Regional Perspective”
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| Article Number | 03002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 8 | |
| Section | Vulnerable road users | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201823103002 | |
| Published online | 16 November 2018 | |
Development of accident prediction models for pedestrian crossings
Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering, ul. L. Kaczyńskiego 16, 00-637 Warsaw, Poland
* Corresponding author: p.olszewski@il.pw.edu.pl
In large Polish cities like Warsaw, pedestrians constitute almost 60% of road fatalities. Although traffic safety situation in general is improving, the numbers of pedestrians hit when crossing a road have not significantly decreased over the last six years. A negative binomial model was estimated for predicting accidents at unsignalised pedestrian crossings based on accident data from 52 crossings in Warsaw. A total of 58 pedestrian accidents were recorded at these crossings during the last seven years. The model shows that the number of accidents is less-than-proportional to both pedestrian and motorised traffic daily volumes. Other risk factors affecting pedestrian safety are: higher proportion of heavy vehicles and location in a mixed land use area. The model can be used with the Empirical Bayes method for an unbiased identification of high risk locations.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2018
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