Sinem Sisman
Spatial analysis of road crashes involving vulnerable road users in support of road safety management strategies.
Rel. Marco Bassani. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Civil Engineering, 2022
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Abstract
Road traffic crashes result in the deaths of approximately 1.3 million people around the world each year and leave between 20 and 50 million people with non-fatal injuries. Due to insufficient physical protection in the event of a collision, more than half of all road traffic deaths are among vulnerable road users (VRU), i.e., pedestrians, cyclists, and motorcyclists. The urban road environment poses a high risk to VRU. However, traffic crashes can be reduced by using appropriate safety countermeasures on “hazardous road locations”(HRL) where higher collision frequencies are observed with respect to the average expected level. It is important to highlight that evaluating each sub-category of VRU separately plays a key role to find the most effective countermeasures for each specific VRU.
This study presents the analyses and results about the spatial distribution of traffic collisions to identify HRL in Turin from 2006 to 2019 by considering all VRU and related sub-categories (pedestrians, cyclists, moped, and motorcycle users respectively)
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