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T1 Road safety of elder pedestrians in the urban context: An approach based on infrastructure and socioeconomic variables
A1 Gálvez Pérez, Daniel
A1 Guirao Abad, Begoña
A1 Ortuño Padilla, Armando
K1 Seguridad vial
K1 Road safety
K1 Peatones
K1 Pedestrians
K1 Infraestructuras
K1 Infrastructures
K1 Ingeniería civil
K1 Civil engineering
K1 Transporte
K1 Transportation
K1 Economía
K1 Economy
AB The world generalized phenomenon of population ageing, caused by an increase in lifeexpectancy, has led to a more elderly being actively part of mobility and road traffic. Indeveloped countries, like Spain, fatalities and severe injuries among elderly pedestrians inthe urban context are a matter of concern since, in the last decades, the fatal accident risk forelderly pedestrians is rising. Although there is an extensive literature on the decline ofdriving and pedestrian skills in the elderly, few research has been devoted to the impact ofthe street type and socioeconomic factors per urban district on this type of collisions.The road safety analysis of pedestrians´ collisions is complex due to the diversity of thefeatures, the dispersion of the data and the lack of infrastructure information associated tothe accident location at official databases. The main target of this paper is the identificationof the basic socioeconomic and infrastructure factors that contribute to elder pedestrianaccident at urban level, taking the administrative units (districts) as territorial accidentlocation. Madrid is the capital of one of the most rapidly ageing nations in the world, andwas selected as case study because it also has a high proportion of elderly residents (19%).The Spanish General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) provided the database (2006-2018) onaccident statistics and the crashes involving an elderly in Madrid were filtered to elaborateand ad-hoc data base. The study methodology was based on a negative binomial model totest the accident occurrence at district level. Results revealed the clear influence of thedistrict population variables (density and total inhabitants) together with the activity centresassociated to the elderly mobility, followed by the road length and the ageing rate per district.
PB Universidad de Burgos. Servicio de Publicaciones e Imagen Institucional
SN 978-84-18465-12-3
YR 2021
FD 2021-07
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/7027
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/7027
LA eng
NO Trabajo presentado en: R-Evolucionando el transporte, XIV Congreso de Ingeniería del Transporte (CIT 2021), realizado en modalidad online los días 6, 7 y 8 de julio de 2021, organizado por la Universidad de Burgos
NO Daniel Gálvez-Pérez is developing his doctoral thesis while he enjoys a grant from to the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid through the “Programa Propio de I+D+I 2020: Ayudas para Contratos Predoctorales”.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 29-abr-2024