Citation

Asadi-Shekari Z, Moeinaddini M, Sultan Z, Zaly Shah M, Hamzah A. Traffic Injury Prev. 2016; 17(6): 650-655.

Affiliation

Centre for Innovative Planning and Development (CIPD) at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia , Email: merang@utm.my.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/15389588.2015.1136739

PMID

26890058

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: A number of efforts have been conducted on travel behaviour and transport fatalities at the neighbourhood or street level, and they have identified different factors such as roadway characteristics, personal indicators and design indicators related to transport safety. However, only a limited number of studies have considered the relationship between travel behaviour indicators and the number of transport fatalities at the city level. Therefore, this study explores this relationship and how to fill the mentioned gap in current knowledge.

METHOD: A generalized linear model (GLM) estimates the relationships between different travel mode indicators (e.g., length of motorway per inhabitants, number of motorcycles per inhabitants, percentage of daily trips on foot and by bicycle, percentage of daily trips by public transport) and the number of passenger transport fatalities. Because this city-level model is developed using data sets from different cities all over the world, the impacts of GDP are also included in the model.

CONCLUSIONS: Overall, the results imply that the percentage of daily trips by public transport, the percentage of daily trips on foot and by bicycle and the GDP per inhabitant have negative relationships with the number of passenger transport fatalities, while the motorway's length and the number of motorcycles have positive relationships with the number of passenger transport fatalities.

Language: en