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http://dx.doi.org/10.12815/kits.2014.13.6.054

Analysis of Accident Characteristics and Improvement Strategies of Flash Signal-operated Intersection in Seoul  

Kim, Seung-Jun (The Seoul Institute)
Park, Byung-Jung (Myongji University)
Lee, Jin-Hak (The Seoul Institute)
Kim, Ok-Sun (The Seoul Institute)
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The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems / v.13, no.6, 2014 , pp. 54-63 More about this Journal
Abstract
Traffic accident frequency and severity level in Korea are known to be very serious. Especially the number of pedestrian fatalities was much worse and 1.6 time higher than the OECD average. According to the National Police Agency, the flash signals are reported to have many safety benefits as well as travel time reduction, which is opposed to the foreign studies. With this background of expanding the flash signal, this research aims to investigate the overall impact of the flash signal operation on safety, investigating and comparing the accident occurrence on the flash signal and the full signal intersections. For doing this accident prediction models for both flash and full signal intersections were estimated using independent variables (geometric features and traffic volume) and 3-year (2011-2013) accident data collected in Seoul. Considering the rare and random nature of accident occurrence and overdispersion (variance > mean) of the data, the negative binomial regression model was applied. As a result, installing wider crosswalk and increasing the number of pedestrian push buttons seemed to increase the safety of the flash signal intersections. In addition, the result showed that the average accident occurrence at the flash signal intersections was higher than at the full signal-operated intersections, 9% higher with everything else the same.
Keywords
Flash Signal; Full Signal; Traffic Accident; Negative Binomial Regression Model; Pedestrian Safety;
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