Pedestrian safety and the built environment: a review of the risk factors

P Stoker, A Garfinkel-Castro… - Journal of Planning …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Urban and regional planning has a contribution to make toward improving pedestrian safety,
particularly in view of the fact that about 273,000 pedestrians were killed in road traffic …

Crash risk, crash exposure, and the built environment: A conceptual review

LA Merlin, E Guerra, E Dumbaugh - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstracts This paper reviews the literature on the relationship between the built environment
and roadway safety, with a focus on studies that analyse small geographical units, such as …

On accommodating spatial dependence in bicycle and pedestrian injury counts by severity level

S Narayanamoorthy, R Paleti, CR Bhat - Transportation research part B …, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a new spatial multivariate count model to jointly analyze the traffic
crash-related counts of pedestrians and bicyclists by injury severity. The modeling …

Economic development, demographic characteristics, road network and traffic accidents in Zhongshan, China: gradient boosting decision tree model

W Wu, S Jiang, R Liu, W Jin, C Ma - Transportmetrica A: transport …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This paper explores the joint effects of economic development, demographic characteristics
and road network on road safety. Although extensive efforts have been undertaken to model …

Towards activity-based exposure measures in spatial analysis of pedestrian–motor vehicle crashes

N Dong, F Meng, J Zhang, SC Wong, P Xu - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Although numerous efforts have been devoted to exploring the effects of area-
wide factors on the frequency of pedestrian crashes in neighborhoods over the past two …

A new spatial and flexible multivariate random-coefficients model for the analysis of pedestrian injury counts by severity level

CR Bhat, S Astroza, PS Lavieri - Analytic methods in accident research, 2017 - Elsevier
We propose in this paper a spatial random coefficients flexible multivariate count model to
examine, at the spatial level of a census tract, the number of pedestrian injuries by injury …

Building walkable and safe neighborhoods: Assessing the built environment characteristics for pedestrian safety in Buffalo, NY

L Yin, H Zhang - Journal of Transport & Health, 2021 - Elsevier
Introduction It is important to understand the relationship between the built environment and
pedestrian safety to promote walking. Nevertheless, current literature insufficiently studied …

Bayesian approach to model pedestrian crashes at signalized intersections with measurement errors in exposure

SQ Xie, N Dong, SC Wong, H Huang, P Xu - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2018 - Elsevier
This study intended to identify the potential factors contributing to the occurrence of
pedestrian crashes at signalized intersections in a densely populated city, based on a …

Incorporating spatial dependence in simultaneously modeling crash frequency and severity

YC Chiou, C Fu, H Chih-Wei - Analytic methods in accident research, 2014 - Elsevier
Estimation results obtained by models of crash frequency and severity without considering
spatial dependence effects may lead to biased estimates and mis-specification of the risk …

Pedestrian safety at signalized intersections: Spatial and machine learning approaches

E Kuşkapan, MA Sahraei, MK Çodur… - Journal of Transport & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Introduction The major goal of the present research is to determine hotspot areas by the
generation of a geospatial model and develop a model associated with pedestrian-vehicle …