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Pedestrian Road Accident Index for Municipalities: The Portuguese Case

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dc.contributor.authorSantos, Bertha
dc.contributor.authorCarvalheira, Carmen
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-13T10:02:17Z
dc.date.available2020-01-13T10:02:17Z
dc.date.issued2019-09
dc.description.abstractPortuguese road traffic accidents statistics show that the number of accidents with fatalities and serious injuries has in general decreased in recent years. However, the number of accidents involving pedestrians is still high when compared with those observed in other countries of the European Union. In order to assess this problem, an index of pedestrian road traffic accidents for municipalities that could be used in decision-making about pedestrian safety measures is proposed. The use of absolute values of accidents involving pedestrians (running over) does not allow itself a reliable comparison of pedestrian safety level between municipalities. In this sense, the approach proposed uses the information available in the Portuguese database PORDATA to calculate a municipal index that takes into account the degree of exposure of pedestrians to accident, based on national and municipal resident population annual growth rates and number of pedestrian's casualties. This index allows to identify the municipalities with unfavourable deviation to national numbers of road accidents involving pedestrians (per 10000 inhabitants), supporting the plan and allocation of human and economic resources for the diagnosis, definition and implementation of safety measures. The results obtained can be visualized in a GIS for a more comprehensive comparison between municipalities. The analyses performed for Portugal showed that, in general, municipalities with higher resident population annual growth rates, located mostly along the coastline and in more consolidated urban areas, tend to present better index values, which points to the need to intervene in less consolidated areas.pt_PT
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dc.identifier.citationBertha Santos and Carmen Carvalheira 2019 IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng. 603 042084pt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.1088/1757-899X/603/4/042084pt_PT
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.6/8235
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherIOP Conference Seriespt_PT
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/603/4/042084/metapt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectPedestrian Safetypt_PT
dc.subjectRoad Accident Indexpt_PT
dc.subjectMunicipalitiespt_PT
dc.titlePedestrian Road Accident Index for Municipalities: The Portuguese Casept_PT
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.citation.startPage042084pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleIOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineeringpt_PT
oaire.citation.volume603pt_PT
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person.givenNameCarmen
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