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Factors affecting road accidents in urban areas: a case study of Nakhon Si Thammarat municipality

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dc.contributor.author Yaifa, Trakulsanti
dc.contributor.author Piti, Chantruthai
dc.contributor.author Orawan, Raya
dc.contributor.author Pichai, Taneerananon
dc.date.accessioned 2018-09-13T01:19:04Z
dc.date.available 2018-09-13T01:19:04Z
dc.identifier.uri http://dl.lib.mrt.ac.lk/handle/123/13543
dc.description.abstract This paper describes a method for identity hazardous road location in Nakhon Si Thammarat municipality and the findings regarding the causes of the traffic accidents. The ranking of study locations were selected by using the criteria of number of critical accidents and severity index. The 3 study locations comprise Black Spot no.1 (BS-1): Robinson department store, Black spot no.2 (BS-2): Nakhon Si Thammarat Technical College and Black spot no.3 (BS-3): Thama-market intersection. Results of analysis using the Binary Logistic Regression model show that for BS-1, independent factors that are expected to influence the traffic accidents include gender, number of household motorcycles and driving with excessive speed. For BS-2, the independent variables that are expected to influence the incidence of traffic accidents include age, number of cars in a household and lack of traffic control devices. For BS-3, the independent variables are male and the age of the respondents. Recommendations are suggested to deal with the factors that influence the occurrence of the traffic accidents. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.subject Road accidents in urban area en_US
dc.subject Black spots en_US
dc.subject Binary logistic regression en_US
dc.title Factors affecting road accidents in urban areas: a case study of Nakhon Si Thammarat municipality en_US
dc.type Conference-Full-text en_US
dc.identifier.faculty Engineering en_US
dc.identifier.department Department of Civil Engineering en_US
dc.identifier.year 2014 en_US
dc.identifier.conference 9th Asia Pacific Conference on Transportation & the Environment en_US
dc.identifier.place Mount Lavinia en_US
dc.identifier.pgnos 211-222 en_US
dc.identifier.proceeding Proceedings of the Asia Pacific Conference on Transportation & the Environment en_US
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.31705/APTE.2014.18 en_US


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