The severity of pedestrian crashes: an analysis using Google Street View imagery

Hanson, Christopher S.; Noland, Robert B.; Brown, Charles T.

doi:10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2013.09.002

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“…Female pedestrians are more likely to suffer serious injuries compared to men [9,17,22,24,26]. However, Clifton et al [13] and Abdul-Aziz et al [14] found inconsistent results in this regard.…”

Section: Accident Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Research on the severity of pedestrian-vehicle crashes has been ongoing for many years in multiple countries [1][2][3][8][9][10]13,14,[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]. Many studies have identified factors that affect the severity of pedestrian injuries, including the personal characteristics of pedestrians and drivers, temporal characteristics, and aspects of the built environment, such as road characteristics and land use.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The characteristics of the roads on which pedestrian-vehicle crashes occur have a significant impact on the severity of injuries. Severe injury to the pedestrian is associated with the conditions of the road [2,10,19], the type of road [10], its hierarchy [2,3,9], the number of lanes [9,10,14,18,20], the posted speed limit [17,21], the location of the accident [8,21,28], and general light conditions [1,2]. Of these, it is found that pedestrian crashes that occur on roads with more lanes [10,14,18,20], on freeways [1,9,23], and at crosswalks and intersections are, in general, the cause of greater damage to pedestrians [9,19].…”

Section: Characteristics Of the Built Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Exploring the Determinants of the Severity of Pedestrian Injuries by Pedestrian Age: A Case Study of Daegu Metropolitan City, South Korea

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2020

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Pedestrian-vehicle crashes can result in serious injury to pedestrians, who are exposed to danger when in close proximity to moving vehicles. Furthermore, these injuries can be considerably serious and even lead to death in a manner that varies depending on the pedestrian’s age. This is because the pedestrian’s physical characteristics and behaviors, particularly in relation to roads with moving vehicles, differ depending on the pedestrian’s age. This study examines the determinants of pedestrian injury severity by pedestrian age using binary logistic regression. Factors in the built environment, such as road characteristics and land use of the places where pedestrian crashes occurred, were considered, as were the accident characteristics of the pedestrians and drivers. The analysis determined that the accident characteristics of drivers and pedestrians are more influential in pedestrian-vehicle crashes than the factors of the built environmental characteristics. However, there are substantial differences in injury severity relative to the pedestrian’s age. Young pedestrians (aged under 20 years old) are more likely to suffer serious injury in school zones; however, no association between silver zones and injury severity is found for elderly pedestrians. For people in the age range of 20–39 years old, the severity of pedestrian injuries is lower in areas with more crosswalks and speed cameras. People in the age range of 40–64 years old are more likely to be injured in areas with more neighborhood streets and industrial land use. Elderly pedestrians are likely to suffer fatal injuries in areas with more traffic signals. This study finds that there are differences in the factors of pedestrian injury severity according to the age of pedestrians. Therefore, it is suggested that concrete and efficient policies related to pedestrian age are required to improve pedestrian safety and reduce pedestrian-vehicle crashes.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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“…According to Vandeviver (2014) various studies have indicated numerous advantages to using Google Street View to gather and visualize environmental information on animal species (Olea and Mateo-Tomás 2013), population (Rousselet et al 2013;Gordon and Janzen 2013), pedestrians and road infrastructure (Hanson et al 2013;Guo 2013), and the built and social environment (Sampson 2013), as well as crime incidents in a specific area by law enforcement agencies.…”

Section: Google Street View: a Promising Data Collection Tool In The mentioning

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Exploring Places of Street Drug Dealing in a Downtown Area in Brazil: An Analysis of the Reliability of Google Street View in International Criminological Research

Oliveira¹,

Hsu²

2018

Int. J. Criminol. Sociol.

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This study assesses the reliability of Google Street View (GSV) in auditing environmental features that help create hotbeds of drug dealing in Belo Horizonte, one of Brazil's largest cities. Based on concepts of "crime generators" and "crime enablers," a set of 40 items were selected using arrest data related to drug activities for the period between 2007 and 2011. These items served to develop a GSV data collection instrument used to observe features of 135 street segments that were identified as drug dealing hot spots in downtown Belo Horizonte. The study employs an intra-class correlation (ICC) statistics as a measure of reliability. The study showed mixed findings regarding agreement on some features among raters. One on hand, the observer's lack of familiarity with the local culture and street dynamics may pose a challenge with regards to identifying environmental features. On the other hand, factors such as image quality, objects that obstruct the view, and the overlooking of addresses that are not officially registered also decrease the reliability of the instrument. We conclude that a combination of tools and strategies should be applied to make the use of GSV truly reliable in the field of international criminological research.

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“…Examples include studies in which Street View imagery was a source of information that allowed the habitat of certain animal species to be assessed (Olea and Mateo-Tomás 2013), or where it served as a tool to map the spatial distribution of a particular population (Rousselet et al 2013;Gordon and Janzen 2013) or to obtain information on pedestrian and road infrastructure (Hanson et al 2013;Guo 2013).…”

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Applying Google Maps and Google Street View in criminological research

Vandeviver

2014

Crime Sci

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Online mapping technologies such as Google Maps and Street View have become increasingly accessible. These technologies have many convenient uses in everyday life, but law enforcement agencies have expressed concern that they could be exploited by offenders and might alter existing offending patterns and habits. For environmental criminologists, they have the potential to open up new approaches to conducting research. This paper draws on the results of earlier studies in related fields and a handful of criminological studies to discuss how these online mapping applications can trigger new research questions, and how they could be considered a valuable methodological addition to criminological research.

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The severity of pedestrian crashes: an analysis using Google Street View imagery

Cited by 51 publications

References 20 publications

Exploring the Determinants of the Severity of Pedestrian Injuries by Pedestrian Age: A Case Study of Daegu Metropolitan City, South Korea

Exploring the Determinants of the Severity of Pedestrian Injuries by Pedestrian Age: A Case Study of Daegu Metropolitan City, South Korea

Exploring Places of Street Drug Dealing in a Downtown Area in Brazil: An Analysis of the Reliability of Google Street View in International Criminological Research

Applying Google Maps and Google Street View in criminological research

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