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A Meta Analysis of the Effects of Road Safety Facilities on Accident Reduction: Focusing on Signalized Intersection

도로안전시설의 사고감소효과 메타분석 : 신호교차로를 대상으로

  • CHOI, Ji Hye (Department of Transportation Engineering, University of Seoul) ;
  • LIM, Joon Beom (Department of Transportation Engineering, University of Seoul) ;
  • LEE, Soo Beom (Department of Transportation Engineering, University of Seoul)
  • 최지혜 (서울시립대학교 교통공학과) ;
  • 임준범 (서울시립대학교 교통공학과) ;
  • 이수범 (서울시립대학교 교통공학과)
  • Received : 2016.02.05
  • Accepted : 2016.07.22
  • Published : 2016.08.31
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Abstract

The number of traffic accidents at intersections has been increased over the past decade, and in 2014, accounted for 44% of the total traffic accidents. In addition, since most of road accident black spots include signalized intersections, the improvement of safety on signalized intersection is top priority for national road safety program in Korea. For the decision of most effective action plan for the safety of signalized intersection, this study conducted meta-analyses to assess the effects of various road safety facilities at signalized intersection on traffic accidents. We selected 19 articles regarding the prediction of traffic accidents at signalized intersection and calculated 34 individual effect sizes on 8 variables included in the articles. The results found that there was a statistically significant negative relationship between the occurrence of traffic accident and the presence of all of road safety facilities except an exclusive left turn bay. It shows that most of the road safety facilities could prevent traffic accidents, and intersection channelization has the most effective on the reduction of traffic accidents followed by left-turn acceleration lane, lightning, crosswalk, exclusive right-turn lane and median barrier.

교차로에서 발생한 교통사고건수는 최근 10년간 지속적으로 증가하였고, 2014년 전체 교통사고의 44%를 차지하면서 교차로는 교통안전에 취약한 도로형태로 주목되고 있다. 특히 선정된 사고다발지점 대다수가 신호교차로를 포함하고 있어, 신호교차로의 안전개선 노력이 우선적으로 필요한 실정이다. 이에 정부는 주로 도로안전시설 개선사업을 시행하여 주어진 예산 내에서 단기간에 높은 효과를 얻을 수 있는 안전개선사업을 수행하고자 한다. 이를 위하여 도로안전시설의 사고감소효과를 확인하는 연구가 지속적으로 등장하고 있으나 독립적으로 수행된 연구별 특성은 종합하기 어렵고, 각 연구결과가 대표성을 갖는데 한계가 있기 때문에 여전히 한정된 예산과 불확실한 도로안전시설 설치효과로 인해 선뜻 안전개선사업을 진행하지 못하고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 메타분석을 통해 기존의 신호교차로 교통사고발생에 영향을 미치는 변인을 활용한 여러 사고예측연구 결과를 종합적으로 검토하고, 각 변인이 대표할 수 있는 개선효과를 도출하고자 하였다. 본 연구에서는 신호교차로 전체 사고건수를 종속변수로 하는 연구 중 19건의 논문을 선정하고 8개 변인에 대한 34개의 개별효과크기(effect size)를 산출하였다. 메타분석 결과, 도로안전시설 설치와 신호교차로 교통사고의 관계는 좌회전 전용차로를 제외하고는 모두 통계적으로 유의하게 감소한 사고영향을 나타내어, 도로안전시설이 사고감소에 영향을 준다는 통계적인 결과자료를 도출하였다. 그 중 도류화설치의 효과크기가 가장 높았으며, 좌회전차로 가속구간, 조명시설, 횡단보도, 우회전 전용차로, 중앙분리대 순으로 효과가 높은 것으로 나타났다.

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