@article{ref1,
title="A study on the change of traffic accidents around the pedestrian priority zone",
journal="Journal of Korean Society of Transportation",
year="2018",
author="Jang, Jae-Min and Lee, Young-Ihn and Kim, Sukhee and Choi, Hoi-Kyun",
volume="36",
number="2",
pages="112-128",
abstract="We are implementing pedestrian priority zone policy to certain districts to reduce greenhouse gas and to develop eco-friendly city which has more focus on pedestrians' walking environment. This policy has contributed to citizens' satisfaction level with improved public transportation service as well as more spacious streets for walk. Despite highly positive influence of pedestrian priority zone policy to the walking environment, we need to anticipate the impact of this to traffic environment as it may have bad effect to the overall traffic flow around the zone where the policy is implemented. This research has analyzed the change of characteristics of traffic accidents around the eco-traffic area of Hang-Gung dong, Suwon city, to understand impact of the pedestrian priority zone policy to the traffic surroundings, with pre-post analysis methodology. As a result, number of accidents related to pedestrians showed decrease as pedestrian priority zone is designed operated with focus to pedestrians. But accidents related illegal U-turn and violation of the traffic signal showed (significant) increase as there was a restriction of turns and decrease of overall traffic speed. To prevent the accidents above, we need to notice drivers to pay special attention before the pedestrian priority zone event, and information from this research should be given to the drivers through safety signs and mobile application at the place near to the event.   Keywords: ecology-traffic; pedestrian priority zone; pre-post evaluation; pedestrian; traffic accident ; 생태교통; 보행자 우선도로; 사전사후분석; 보행자; 교통사고<p /> <p>Language: ko</p>",
language="ko",
issn="1229-1366",
doi="10.7470/jkst.2018.36.2.112",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.7470/jkst.2018.36.2.112"
}