Area-wide traffic calming for preventing traffic related injuries

Bunn, Frances; Collier, Timothy J.; Frost, Chris; Ker, Katharine; Steinbach, Rebecca; Roberts, Ian; Wentz, Reinhard

doi:10.1002/14651858.cd003110

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“…[2] Yüksek gelirli ülkelerde trafik kazalarını azalmak için yol ve yaya güvenliği ile ilgili çalışmalar yapılmakta fakat daha çok çalışma yapılmasına ihtiyaç duyulmaktadır. [3] Özellikle trafik kazalarının sık görüldüğü düşük gelir düzeyli ülkelerde yapılan çalışma sayısı yetersizdir fakat her geçen gün çeşitli programlar geliştirilmeye çalışılmaktadır. [4] Trafik kazaları, gelişmekte olan diğer ülkeler gibi Türkiye için de önemli bir halk sağlığı sorunudur ve her yıl trafik kazaları sonucu binlerce insan zarar görmektedir.…”

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The Retrospective Evaluation of Injuries Owing to Traffic Collisions in Emergency Department

Aydeniz¹,

Ünaldı²,

Güneysel³

et al. 2014

J Kartal TR

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The Retrospective Evaluation of Injuries Owing to Traffic Collisions in Emergency Department

Aydeniz¹,

Ünaldı²,

Güneysel³

et al. 2014

J Kartal TR

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“…One intervention named "traffi c calming", more commonly adopted by European countries, have proved to be promising to reduce fatal and non-fatal injuries. 4 This concept concerns a set of strategies used by urban traffi c engineers and planners that aim to slow down or reduce traffi c. This improves pedestrians and cyclists' safety, and the environment for residents, and it also contributes to the reduction of noise and air pollution. In addition, better enforcement of current laws is an important factor to be considered.…”

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Perfil dos atendimentos a acidentes de transporte terrestre por serviços de emergência em São Paulo, 2005

Gawryszewski

Coelho²,

Scarpelini

et al. 2009

Rev. Saúde Pública

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OBJECTIVE:To analyze the characteristics of visits resulting from land transport injuries. METHODS:A total of 5,934 visits in four hospital emergency departments (ED) were analyzed, in the state of São Paulo, in 2005. A questionnaire based on the following three models was used to collect data: World Health Organization (WHO), Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). Variables analyzed were as follows: type of road user (vehicle occupant, pedestrian, motorcyclist, and cyclist), sex, age group, and type of injury suffered. Logistic regression analysis was employed to test associations between variables. Odds ratios with their respective 95% confi dence intervals were calculated. RESULTS:The majority of victims were males (74.2%) in the 20-to-29-year age group (35.0%). Vulnerable road users totaled 72.4% of all cases (29.8% were motorcyclists, 24.1% pedestrians, and 18.5% cyclists). Victims aged between zero and 14 years who had suffered injuries were mostly pedestrians and cyclists; motorcyclists predominated among those aged between 15 and 39 years; and pedestrians among those aged over 50 years. About half of the cases suffered minor injuries (strains, dislocations, contusions and cuts), while the other half was comprised by fractures, traumatic brain injuries and internal injuries. Extremities were the most affected body parts, particularly among motorcyclists. The majority of victims were discharged at triage (87.6%). Compared to women, men were 1.5 times more likely to be admitted or transferred, or to die. Pedestrians, vehicle occupants and motorcyclists were, respectively, 2.7, 2.4 and 1.9 times more likely to be admitted or transferred, or to die than cyclists. CONCLUSIONS:Measures aimed to protect vulnerable road users should be among the priorities to reduce land transport-related injuries.

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“…The interventions to improve cyclist safety resulting from this research should include reduced speed limits (Bunn et al, 2003), off-road paths along fast roads (Vandenbulcke et al, 2014) and better enforcement of road regulations (Wegman et al, 2012). More radical approaches include steps to normalise cycling, restrict car use and the modification of road markings to encourage safer driving (Shackel and Parkin, 2014).…”

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Who, where, when: the demographic and geographic distribution of bicycle crashes in West Yorkshire

Lovelace

Roberts

Kellar

2016

Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviou

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Factors associated with cycle safety, including international differences in injury and mortality rates, protective equipment and bicycle training, have been subject to increasing academic interest. Environmental variables associated with cycle safety have also been scrutinised, but few studies have focussed on geographical factors at the local level. This paper addresses this research gap by analysing a geo-referenced dataset of road traffic incidents, taken from the UK's STATS19 dataset (2005 -2012). We investigate incidents involving cyclists within West Yorkshire. This is an interesting case study area as it has an historically low cycling rate but very ambitions cycling plans following investment from the Department of Transport. West Yorkshire is found to be an unusually risky area for cyclists, with an estimated 53 deaths and 1372 serious injuries per billion kilometres cycled, based on census commuting statistics. This is roughly double the national average. This riskiness varies spatially and temporally, broadly in line with expectations from the previous literature. An unexpected result was that cycling seems to be disproportionately risky for young people in West Yorkshire compared with young people nationally. The case study raises the issue of potential negative health impacts of promoting cycling amongst vulnerable groups in dangerous areas. We conclude by highlighting opportunities for increasing cycling uptake via measures designed primarily to improve safety. The analysis underlying this research is reproducible, based on code stored at github.com/Robinlovelace/bikeR.

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Area-wide traffic calming for preventing traffic related injuries

Cited by 96 publications

References 12 publications

The Retrospective Evaluation of Injuries Owing to Traffic Collisions in Emergency Department

The Retrospective Evaluation of Injuries Owing to Traffic Collisions in Emergency Department

Perfil dos atendimentos a acidentes de transporte terrestre por serviços de emergência em São Paulo, 2005

Who, where, when: the demographic and geographic distribution of bicycle crashes in West Yorkshire

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