Analysis of the pedestrian accidents in Turkey

Abstract

This study summarizes the methods and findings of a study on pedestrian safety in Turkey. The analyses were conducted for individual provinces as well as for the country as a whole for the years from 2013 to 2015 using data maintained by the Turkish Statistical Institute. An examination of the national level results indicated that despite the equal distribution of women and men in national population, men constitute the 70% of the fatality in pedestrian accidents and 57% of the injuries. It was found that 65+ age group had the highest rate of accident involvement and fatality rates per million population. The lowest accident involvement rates were observed in the 25-64 age group, while the lowest fatality rates were observed in the 15-24 age group. Province level analysis provided a comparative analysis of pedestrian safety records across the 81 provinces. The comparisons were performed in relative terms. In this case study, pedestrian accident involvements and fatalities per million registered vehicle and population were used as the measures of exposure. Clustering analysis were performed to reveal some patterns based on geographic location of the provinces. The results showed that accident involvement and fatality rates per million population were not significantly clustered. Fatality rates per million registered vehicles were significantly clustered 90% confidence level and pedestrian accident involvement rates per million registered vehicles were significantly clustered 95% confidence level.

Keywords

• Pedestrian Accidents
• Pedestrian Safety
• Clustering Analysis

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