Risk study on daily traffic mode of the dwellers living along the western highways in China : a case study of Ping-Zhong section of G109-national highway.

Author(s)
Chen, Y. Hu, J. & Liu, X.
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Abstract

Most of the dwellers living along the western highways in China adopt two kinds of traffic modes in their daily life: walking and cycling, and the risk of these traffic modes is higher than that of other traffic modes, so traffic accident of these modes on the highway happens frequently. This paper analyzed all the traffic accidents that happened on Pingluo-Zhongning section of G109-national highway in Ningxia Hui autonomous region from year 2001 to 2005, it considered that the accident percentage of walking and cycling is high obviously, and the degree of casualty is very serious, besides the paper analyzed the accident characteristics of these two kinds of traffic modes respectively from the aspects of time distribution, age distribution, sex distribution and accident type etc., in the end it put forward some preventing and treating advices basing on the accident characteristics and the accident causes aiming for better safe traffic environment for the dwellers. For the covering abstract see ITRD E138091. This paper is available from http://www.ictct.org/workshops/07-Beijing/66ChenYan256264.pdf.

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C 43399 (In: C 43376 CD-ROM) /82 / ITRD E138007
Source

In: Proceedings of the extra workshop on Road User Behaviour with a Special Focus on Vulnerable Road Users : Technical, Social and Psychological Aspects of the International Cooperation on Theories and Concepts in Traffic Safety ICTCT, Beijing, China, 2-3 April 2007, 8 ref.

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