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The Effects of a School Zone Improvement Project on Crash Reduction Regarding Land Use Characteristics  

Lee, Soo-Beom (서울시립대학교 교통공학과)
Jung, Do-Young (서울시립대학교 교통공학과)
Kim, Do-Gyeong (서울시립대학교 교통공학과)
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Journal of Korean Society of Transportation / v.26, no.3, 2008 , pp. 109-117 More about this Journal
Abstract
The first phase of School Zone Improvement Project introduced to enhance the safety of school-routes were completed by 2007 and the second phase of the project will be continued from 2008 to 2012. Since a huge budget is required for the project, there is a need to evaluate how many child-related crashes were reduced through the project, prior to the implementation of the second phase. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the influence of the School Zone Improvement Project on reduction in child-related crashes with data collected from the database of the National Police Agency. This study employed a Before-and-After study with comparison group to assess how many crashes were reduced. The results showed that the number of child-related crashes were decreased by 10, which is about 39% reduction in crash frequencies. With respect to the land use characteristics of school zones, the number of reduced crashes in residential zone, commercial zone, and mixed zone were 2.41, 3.8, and 0.5, respectively. The results may provide a significant implication for the second phase of the project that there is a need to establish different plans for improvement project with respect to land use characteristics.
Keywords
School Zoen Improvement Project; Crash Reduction; Land Use Characteristics; Beforeand-after study; Index of Effectiveness;
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