The Influence of Built Environment Factors on Elderly Pedestrian Road Safety in Cities: The Experience of Madrid
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Título: | The Influence of Built Environment Factors on Elderly Pedestrian Road Safety in Cities: The Experience of Madrid |
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Autor/es: | Gálvez-Pérez, Daniel | Guirao, Begoña | Ortuño Padilla, Armando | Picado-Santos, Luis |
Grupo/s de investigación o GITE: | Ingeniería del Transporte, Territorio y Medio Litoral (AORTA) | Economía de la Vivienda y Sector Inmobiliario (ECOVISI) |
Centro, Departamento o Servicio: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Ingeniería Civil |
Palabras clave: | Elderly pedestrians | Road safety | Road traffic collisions | Accident analysis | Built environment | Street design |
Área/s de conocimiento: | Ingeniería e Infraestructura de los Transportes |
Fecha de publicación: | 17-feb-2022 |
Editor: | MDPI |
Cita bibliográfica: | Gálvez-Pérez D, Guirao B, Ortuño A, Picado-Santos L. The Influence of Built Environment Factors on Elderly Pedestrian Road Safety in Cities: The Experience of Madrid. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2022; 19(4):2280. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19042280 |
Resumen: | With the progressive ageing of the population, the study of the relations between road safety and elderly users is becoming increasingly relevant. Although the decline of pedestrian skills in the elderly has been widely studied in the literature, few studies have been devoted to the contributing built environmental factors of the elderly pedestrian collisions, such as the sidewalk density, the presence of traffic lights, or even some indicator related to land use or the socioeconomic features of the urban fabric. This paper contributes to the limited literature on elderly pedestrian safety by applying a negative binomial regression to a set of built environmental variables to study the occurrence of accidents involving elderly and younger (non-elderly) pedestrians in Madrid (Spain) between 2006 and 2018. The model considers a selection of built environmental factors per city district, linked to land use, infrastructure, and socioeconomic indicators. Results have highlighted that the elderly pedestrian collisions could be avoided with the existence of a wider sidewalk in the district and a greater traffic lights density. Unlike younger pedestrian accidents, these accidents are much more favored in ageing districts with higher traffic flows. |
Patrocinador/es: | 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”. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/122253 |
ISSN: | 1660-4601 |
DOI: | 10.3390/ijerph19042280 |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipo: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Derechos: | © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Revisión científica: | si |
Versión del editor: | https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19042280 |
Aparece en las colecciones: | INV - AORTA - Artículos de Revistas INV - ECOVISI - Artículos de Revistas |
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