@article{ref1,
title="Risk-compensation trends in road safety during covid-19",
journal="Sustainability (Basel)",
year="2022",
author="Islam, Md Rakibul and Abdel-Aty, Mohamed and Islam, Zubayer and Zhang, Shile",
volume="14",
number="9",
pages="e5057-e5057",
abstract="The COVID-19 pandemic has had a global impact, disrupting the normal trends of our everyday life. More specifically, the effects of COVID-19 on road safety are still largely unexplored. Hence, this study aims to investigate the change in road safety trends due to COVID-19 using real-time traffic parameters. <br><br>RESULTS from the extensive analyses of the 2017 to 2020 data of Interstate-4 show that traffic volume decreased by 13.6% in 2020 compared to the average of 2017-2019's volume, whereas there is a decreasing number of crashes at the higher volume. Average speed increased by 11.3% during the COVID-19 period; however, the increase in average speed during the COVID-19 period has an insignificant relationship with crash severities. Fatal crashes increased, while total crashes decreased, during the COVID-19 period; severe crashes decreased with the total crashes. Alcohol-related crashes decreased by 22% from 2019 to 2020. Thus, the road-safety trend due to the impact of COVID-19 has evidently changed and presents a unique trend. The findings of the study suggest a larger need for a more in-depth study to analyze the impact of COVID-19 on road safety, to minimize fatalities on roads through appropriate policy measures.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2071-1050",
doi="10.3390/su14095057",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14095057"
}