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http://dx.doi.org/10.12652/Ksce.2015.35.6.1339

Experimental Investigation of Macroscopic Analysis of Traffic Safety Using Meta Analysis Focused on Busan Metropolitan City  

Park, Jongseo (Dong-A University)
Oh, Yun Pyo (Dong-A University)
Kim, Hoe Kyoung (Dong-A University)
Ahn, Woosung (Dong-A University)
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KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research / v.35, no.6, 2015 , pp. 1339-1345 More about this Journal
Abstract
Korean government annually estimates and reports the traffic safety index to evaluate the traffic safety of 228 Gu Gun. However, since the traffic safety index is derived from the spatially macroscopic perspective based on collected relative data, there are a couple of problems such as inability to investigate the individual traffic accidents on the spot, insecurity of accuracy and reliability of traffic safety index estimation method, and absence of establishing temporal relationship of traffic accidents. Thus, this study investigated temporal traffic safety in macroscopic manner for Gu Gun in Busan depending on the installation of the traffic safety facility (i.e., urban median), employing meta analysis. As a result, all Gu Gun in Busan except Saha, Buk, Dong, and Busanjin experienced more traffic accidents after installing the urban median, indicating that there are more rooms for improvement of macroscopic traffic safety evaluation.
Keywords
Urban median; Meta analysis; Traffic safety index; Traffic accident analysis system; Geographic information system;
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