Citation

Moradi A, Rahmani K, Kavousi A, Eshghabadi F, Nematollahi S, Zainni S, Soori H. Int. J. Inj. Control Safe. Promot. 2018; ePub(ePub): 1-5.

Affiliation

Safety Promotion and Injury Prevention Research Center , Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences , Tehran , Iran.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/17457300.2018.1431933

PMID

29460661

Abstract

The aim of this study was to geographically analyse the traffic casualties in pedestrians in downtown of Tehran City. Study population consisted of pedestrians who had traffic injury accidents from April 2014 to March 2015 in Tehran City. Data were extracted from the offices of traffic police and municipality. For analysis of environmental factors and site of accidents, Ordinary Least Square (OLS) regression models and Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) were used. All pedestrian accidents including 514 accidents were assessed in this study in which the site of accidents included arterial streets in 370 (71.9%) cases, collector streets in 133 cases (25.2%) and highways in 11 cases (2.1%). Geographical units of traffic accidents in pedestrians had statistically significant relationship with the number of bus stations, number of crossroads and recreational areas. Neighbourhoods close to markets are considered as the most dangerous places for injury in traffic accidents.

Language: en

Keywords

Road traffic accidents; environmental factors; geographic information system; pedestrians; statistical modelling