Identification and comparative analysis of factors influencing road safety in US regions and in Polish voivodeships
Analyses of road safety at national level have been run for many years and large number of publications concerning them appeared so far. How interdisciplinary the issue is, has been shown by literature studies done by the author of the paper. It appears that economists, mathematicians, doctors as we...
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| description | Analyses of road safety at national level have been run for many years and large number of publications concerning them appeared so far. How interdisciplinary the issue is, has been shown by literature studies done by the author of the paper. It appears that economists, mathematicians, doctors as well as engineers have studied the issue. It is not an easy one, as results of many analyses lead to conflicting conclusions and often fail to provide straightforward answers to questions asked. The administrative actions taken to improve road safety, uniform for the whole country, frequently fail to give expected results, including Poland’s case. Therefore there is a need to analyse what makes some provinces, and not the others, report improvement in road safety. This paper presents part of the work on author’s doctoral thesis, which analyses how regional characteristics may impact road safety in respective regions. However, during collection of data for the purpose of the doctoral thesis it turned out that many variables mentioned in literature as significant had not been collected on regional level in Europe, including Poland. There are, though, available data on respective American states, so the search for the best describing independent variables started from the analyses of US data. The analyses showed the impact of factors such as annual income per capita, transport activity, density of population, seatbelt rates, road and vehicle density, rate of doctors. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-29d0fc51275245a9857175a5ba7dd74d2022-12-22T02:33:28ZengSilesian University of TechnologyTransport Problems1896-05962013-01-01835366Identification and comparative analysis of factors influencing road safety in US regions and in Polish voivodeshipsJoanna WACHNICKAAnalyses of road safety at national level have been run for many years and large number of publications concerning them appeared so far. How interdisciplinary the issue is, has been shown by literature studies done by the author of the paper. It appears that economists, mathematicians, doctors as well as engineers have studied the issue. It is not an easy one, as results of many analyses lead to conflicting conclusions and often fail to provide straightforward answers to questions asked. The administrative actions taken to improve road safety, uniform for the whole country, frequently fail to give expected results, including Poland’s case. Therefore there is a need to analyse what makes some provinces, and not the others, report improvement in road safety. This paper presents part of the work on author’s doctoral thesis, which analyses how regional characteristics may impact road safety in respective regions. However, during collection of data for the purpose of the doctoral thesis it turned out that many variables mentioned in literature as significant had not been collected on regional level in Europe, including Poland. There are, though, available data on respective American states, so the search for the best describing independent variables started from the analyses of US data. The analyses showed the impact of factors such as annual income per capita, transport activity, density of population, seatbelt rates, road and vehicle density, rate of doctors.http://transportproblems.polsl.pl/pl/Archiwum/2013/zeszyt3/2013t8z3_06.pdfroad safetyregionsfactorsvoivodeships |
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| title | Identification and comparative analysis of factors influencing road safety in US regions and in Polish voivodeships |
| title_full | Identification and comparative analysis of factors influencing road safety in US regions and in Polish voivodeships |
| title_fullStr | Identification and comparative analysis of factors influencing road safety in US regions and in Polish voivodeships |
| title_full_unstemmed | Identification and comparative analysis of factors influencing road safety in US regions and in Polish voivodeships |
| title_short | Identification and comparative analysis of factors influencing road safety in US regions and in Polish voivodeships |
| title_sort | identification and comparative analysis of factors influencing road safety in us regions and in polish voivodeships |
| topic | road safety regions factors voivodeships |
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