Pedestrian fatality risk as a function of tram impact speed
Authors:
- Stanislaw Gaca,
- Lukasz Franek
Abstract
The objective of the presented research-work was to develop a model to describe the risk of fatal accident involving tram and pedestrian. This study extends research concerning relationships between the “impact speed” and probability of pedestrian death in case of tram accident. Over 400 “tram-pedestrian” accidents were analyzed. Logistic regression analysis was used in these studies. The main objective of the research is to compare the risk of fatal accidents when pedestrians are struck by passenger cars and trams. GPS system from trams is used to analyze correlation between the tram speed and different conditions along the public transport stop areas (e.g. traffic signals, priority, and platforms localization). The results show that the fatal risk of hitting pedestrians by a tram running at a speed of 50 km/his two and a half times greater than that by a car. Research clearly proves that comparing to car impact speed, there is much higher probability of death when pedestrian is hit by a tram running at a speed of 30 km/h – almost 40%(compared to 5% when hit by car). There are even cases of deaths with a verylow speed of tram (5–10 km/h).
- Record ID
- CUTb70d38a449b14867b499ab57cdaf01b0
- Publication categories
- ;
- Author
- Journal series
- Open Engineering, ISSN 2391-5439
- Issue year
- 2021
- Vol
- 11
- No
- 1
- Pages
- 1105-1113
- Other elements of collation
- fot.; tab.; wykr.; Bibliografia (na s.) - 1113; Bibliografia (liczba pozycji) - 22; Oznaczenie streszczenia - Abstr.; Numeracja w czasopiśmie - Vol. 11, Iss. 1, Spec. Iss.
- Substantive notes
- Special Issue: Modern scientific problems in civil engineering
- Keywords in English
- public transport, fatality risk, speed, pedestrian safety
- DOI
- DOI:10.1515/eng-2021-0110 Opening in a new tab
- URL
- https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/eng-2021-0110/html Opening in a new tab
- Language
- eng (en) English
- License
- Score (nominal)
- 70
- Additional fields
- Indeksowana w: Web of Science, Scopus
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- https://cris.pk.edu.pl/info/article/CUTb70d38a449b14867b499ab57cdaf01b0/
- URN
urn:pkr-prod:CUTb70d38a449b14867b499ab57cdaf01b0
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