Implications of Pedestrian Safety Planning Factors in Areas with Minority and Low-Income Populations

    Authors

    C. Siddiqui; M. Abdel-Aty;K. Choi

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Int. J. Sustain. Transp.

    Keywords

    environmental justice areas; low-income population; minority population; pedestrian crashes; safety planning factors; spatial analysis; INJURY COLLISIONS; SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT; CHILDREN; DEATHS; Environmental Studies; Transportation

    Abstract

    Minority status and low-income are two important criteria on which environmental-justice areas are being identified. These unique areal characteristics have been of particular interest to traffic safety analysts in investigating pedestrian safety planning factors in deprived areas. In this study, a pedestrian crash model was developed for these areas explicitly accounting for the spatial autocorrelations of different zonal factors commonly used in the traditional transportation planning models. It was found that the Bayesian Poisson-lognormal model with a spatial effect term performed the best compared to the models without accounting for spatial autocorrelations.

    Journal Title

    International Journal of Sustainable Transportation

    Volume

    8

    Issue/Number

    5

    Publication Date

    1-1-2014

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    360

    Last Page

    381

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000326308300003

    ISSN

    1556-8318

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