Proposing an effective approach for traffic safety assessment on heterogeneous traffic conditions using surrogate safety measures and speed of the involved vehicles

CONCLUSIONS: Fast-moving vehicles were responsible for the less safe maneuvers with a higher collision probability in all the study locations. The correlation between critical conflicts and road accidents shows the effectiveness of the proposed approach in the traffic safety assessments for mixed traffic. This approach could be employed even in countries with homogenous traffic conditions instead of using a single threshold value. The correlations also show the potential of the proposed Critical Following Speed as a surrogate safety indicator for safety evaluation in the future.PMID:38085579 | DOI:10.1080/15389588.2023.2289343
Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Source Type: research