This research aims to establish separate relationships between elderly, child and total pedestrian casualties and urban planning characteristics in a number of zones in the capital city of Jordan, Amman. The considered characteristics for each zone included road density (ratio of street area to zone area), population density, length of streets, number of four-leg intersections, zonal population in thousands, number of green areas, total number of intersections, business rate (ratio of employees to the population), number of students in elementary schools in thousands, and length of public transit routes. The study revealed that elderly pedestrian casualties were significantly correlated with the population density and total population of each zone. The child pedestrian casualties were positively correlated with the population density, the zonal population and the number of students enrolled in elementary schools. However, total green areas were inversely proportional to child pedestrian casualties. The predicted models also indicated that the total pedestrian casualties were significantly correlated with the total population of the zone, number of four-leg intersections, population density, and total number of students enrolled in elementary schools in the considered zones. (a).
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