Abstract
Due to increases in truck traffic, truck traffic safety has become an unavoidable societal issue in Korea. Truck traffic accidents were responsible for 24% of all traffic deaths in 2019, and the fatality rate was significantly higher than that of other forms of traffic. This study analyzes not only the driver and environmental factors, but also the traffic condition factors which are considered to contribute to the severity of truck traffic accidents, and presents practical truck safety solutions based on the findings. This study examines the fatal and serious injury truck traffic accidents in Incheon, which has large logistics facilities and the highest fatality rate (3.3) in Korea’s capital area. According to the regression analysis results, ‘Nighttime’, ‘Vehicle-single’, ‘Vehicle to Pedestrian’, ‘Lane violation’, and ‘Signal violation’ contribute to the severity of truck traffic accidents. Furthermore, truck traffic accidents in the logistics influencing area are more likely to be serious than in the non-influencing area. In terms of the traffic condition factors, the number of lanes, the maximum speed, and the number of road property-changing nodes were significant. The results of this study will provide useful data for establishing traffic safety policies in urban areas.
Highlights
Based on the Korean ‘Automobile Management Act’, a truck is a vehicle that has a cargo storage space suitable for transporting cargo, and the total weight of cargo in the storage space is greater than the weight of all passengers in the boarding space
The factors the conventional items proposed in previous studies, and contain additional aspects include the conventional items proposed in previous studies, and contain additional such as whether logistics facilities affect the severity of truck traffic accidents or not
2017~2019 were collected from the Traffic Accident Analysis System (TAAS), which belongs to Korean Road Traffic Authority (KoROAD)
Summary
Based on the Korean ‘Automobile Management Act’, a truck is a vehicle that has a cargo storage space suitable for transporting cargo, and the total weight of cargo in the storage space is greater than the weight of all passengers (except the driver) in the boarding space. The objective of this study study wasthe to severity identify factor the severity truck traffic accidents in that an to identify of truckfactor trafficof accidents that happened an happened urban area,inand urban area, and propose practical traffic safety policies to improve sociala health. The factors the conventional items proposed in previous studies, and contain additional aspects include the conventional items proposed in previous studies, and contain additional such as whether logistics facilities affect the severity of truck traffic accidents or not As aspects such as whether logistics facilities affect the severity of truck traffic accidents or the importance and emergence of traffic safety issues in urban areas has increased, a not. As the importance and emergence of traffic safety issues inthis urban areas increased, comprehensive factor analysis on truck traffic accidents, such as study, is has required.
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