This study investigated the impact of traffic, geometric, and environmental/land-use variables that contribute to increasing the frequency of pedestrian accidents on urban arterial midblocks in Irbid city, Jordan. The results indicated that about 64 percent of pedestrian accidents occurred on urban arterials, of which 74 percent occurred within midblock areas. Despite that the sample size was relatively small, the results revealed that: (1) the peak traffic flow, (2) percentage of commerical and green areas long each midblock, (3) number of public buildings frontage along arterials that provide pedestrian-attracting locations, (4) average sidewalk width, and (5) parking conditions significantly (95 percent confidence level) influenced the midblock pedestrian accidents. (Author/publisher).
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