The population in Europe is growing older. The mobility behaviour of the eldery is highly specific, and cannot fail to influence road safety, as they are extremely vulnerable, for physiological reasons, and because they use less protected travel modes. Several dominant features have already come to light: 1) the over-involvement of elderly people in accidents at road intersections; 2) old people are also more often involved as pedestrians and cyclists; (3) they are more likely to be assumed responsible for accidents than other drivers; (4) lateral detection and assessment is more difficult for the elderly. The objective of this report is therefore to provide a description of elderly road users based on the use of elderly road users based on the use of accident and mobility databases, and to evaluate road risk according to different types of indicators using direct and induced exposure estimates.
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