Some general conclusions of pedestrian safety problems

Pedestrian traffic accidents constitute a major part of all traffic accidents in Iran. Studies based on the year 2007 data, have revealed that out of a total of 27567 traffic accident fatalities, 6258(22.7 percent) have been pedestrians. This is why the present study has been done to find practical pedestrian safety measures, having in mind how critical pedestrian traffic safety is. To do field studies with the objective of finding and classifying pedestrian traffic safety problems, two provinces of Gilan and Mazandran were selected for case studies in order to present the solutions and strategies for the improvement of pedestrian traffic safety. We first defined some indexes for the selection of proper areas and then prioritized them. After a more precise study of prioritized areas, necessary object setting for improvement of pedestrian safety purposes was carried out. This way, necessary strategies to meet predefined targets were determined by classifying pedestrian’s safety problems and defining safety targets for each category of problems; and, for each strategy, safety improvement measures, under three titles, named engineering, education and enforcement measures were presented. Results show that heavy vehicles traffic volume and number of pedestrians are related to the number of pedestrian accidents in such a way that with an increase in heavy vehicles traffic volume and number of pedestrians, there is an increase in the number of pedestrian accidents with such vehicles. In both provinces, proportion of daytime pedestrian accidents is greater than that of night time. In spite of the fact that 68.24 percent of Gilan and 73.15 percent of Mazandaran pedestrian accidents have occurred during the day, remarkable percentages of night time pedestrian accidents must be noticed. Also, 71.19 percent of Gilan and 71 percent of Mazandaran pedestrian accidents have occurred during the week days.

کلیدواژه ها:

Pedestrian Safety ، Traffic Accident ، safety Measures ، Strategy