Volume 1
Analysis of Factors Affecting Urban Road Accidents in Rasht Metropolis
Authors
Seyed Mohsen Hosseinian, Vahid Najafi Moghaddam Gilani
Abstract
Traffic accidents are occurred by a combination of factors that lead to casualties, injuries and property-damages. The four factors of human, vehicle, road and environment always play a key role in the occurrence of such accidents. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of various factors on the severity of urban traffic accidents in Rasht metropolis in the years of March 2016 to March 2018 using frequency analysis of 7294 accident data. The results showed that various variables affected the severity of road accidents in Rasht metropolis, including accident season, accident day, accident time, road surface condition, driver gender, driver age, geometry of accident location, daylight condition and weather condition. The results of the frequency analysis of accidents for determining the most important factors indicated that a high percentage of accidents resulted in injuries and often occurred in the summer season, the start of the week, during the day, at the hours of 12 to 18, in dry road conditions, by male drivers and in the age group of 30 to 45 years, especially on straight roads and in clear weather.
Keyword: Road safety, Urban accidents, Frequency analysis.
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