TY - JOUR
T1 - Impact of Roadside Design Compliance and Hazard Offset on the Risk of Single-Vehicle, Run-Off-Road Crash Fatalities
AU - Awadalla, Dina Mustafa
AU - Albuquerque, Francisco Daniel Benicio
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the United Arab Emirates University [grant number 31N262]. The authors would like to thank the United Arab Emirates University for funding this research effort under the grant number 31N262. The authors would also like to thank the staff of the Abu Dhabi Traffic Police for sharing the crash database, as well as the Al Ain and Abu Dhabi Departments of Transport, for providing the average daily traffic data.
Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank the United Arab Emirates University for funding this research effort under the grant number 31N262. The authors would also like to thank the staff of the Abu Dhabi Traffic Police for sharing the crash database, as well as the Al Ain and Abu Dhabi Departments of Transport, for providing the average daily traffic data.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Single-vehicle, run-off-road (SVROR) crashes account for a significant portion of all road-related injuries and fatalities worldwide. However, no previous study has examined to what extent roadside design guidelines have been applied, nor (and most importantly) whether having a compliant roadside design reduces the likelihood of fatal injury occurrence in SVROR crashes. Thus, the objectives of this research are i) to examine the level of roadside design compliance within the studied area based on the selected benchmark and ii) to investigate whether roadside design compliance reduces the likelihood of fatal injury occurrence in SVROR crashes. Findings from this study are based on extensive crash and field data collected from 1,070 SVROR injury collisions and locations, respectively. The study shows that i) only 32 percent of the studied locations contained compliant design, and ii) barrier and discrete-obstacle lateral offsets larger than 6 and 12 meters, respectively, tended to lower fatality risk. The 12-meter clear-zone (CZ) width is larger than that recommended by previous research, which has based CZ width recommendations also on cost-benefit procedures and not just on fatality risk reduction.
AB - Single-vehicle, run-off-road (SVROR) crashes account for a significant portion of all road-related injuries and fatalities worldwide. However, no previous study has examined to what extent roadside design guidelines have been applied, nor (and most importantly) whether having a compliant roadside design reduces the likelihood of fatal injury occurrence in SVROR crashes. Thus, the objectives of this research are i) to examine the level of roadside design compliance within the studied area based on the selected benchmark and ii) to investigate whether roadside design compliance reduces the likelihood of fatal injury occurrence in SVROR crashes. Findings from this study are based on extensive crash and field data collected from 1,070 SVROR injury collisions and locations, respectively. The study shows that i) only 32 percent of the studied locations contained compliant design, and ii) barrier and discrete-obstacle lateral offsets larger than 6 and 12 meters, respectively, tended to lower fatality risk. The 12-meter clear-zone (CZ) width is larger than that recommended by previous research, which has based CZ width recommendations also on cost-benefit procedures and not just on fatality risk reduction.
KW - design compliance
KW - fatal injury
KW - logistic regression
KW - roadside
KW - run-off-road crash
KW - safety
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U2 - 10.1080/17457300.2021.1942923
DO - 10.1080/17457300.2021.1942923
M3 - Article
C2 - 34251991
AN - SCOPUS:85110549303
SN - 1745-7300
VL - 28
SP - 468
EP - 478
JO - International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion
JF - International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion
IS - 4
ER -