Road Safety from the Perspective of Driver Gender and Age as Related to the Injury Crash Frequency and Road Scenario

Abstract

According to the current study, based on the network approach for the allocation of economic resources and planning of road safety strategies, calibration of injury crash rate prediction models for specific target collision type is important because of the range of harms that are caused by different collision types. From these studies it is apparent that the age and gender of drivers considered together further refines how those factors contribute to crashes. Countermeasures (structural road interventions and/or safety awareness campaigns) can be planned to reduce the highest rate of injury crash for each gender and road scenario: the awareness campaigns cannot be generalized or vague but must be organized by age and gender, because this study shows that crash dynamics alter as these factors change, with consideration for the varying psychological traits of the driver groups. Before-and-after safety evaluations can be used to check the safety benefits of improvements carried out on the roadways, within budget constraints for improvement or safety compliance investments for future operation. Supplemental materials are available for this article. Go to the publisher's online edition of Traffic Injury Prevention to view the supplemental file.

Driver Attitude Towards Traffic Safety Violations and Risk Taking Behaviour in Kumasi: The Gender and Age Dimension

“…This indicates that females are more careful and have lower risk taking attitudes than males. In terms of age, Russo et al (2013) again found that under wet-curved road surfaces in the night, drivers within the ages of 18-40 years have a higher risk of single-vehicle crashes whilst those within the ages of 20-45 years have higher risks for rear-end collisions in dry road surfaces at night at a tangent segment scenario.…”

“…Results for this study will therefore suggest the specific target group attitudes and behaviour that injury intervention programmes should focus on. Russo et al (2013) and Ulleberg and Rundmo (2003) posited that injury prevention programmes in developing countries are more likely to be successful when they are targeted at specific risk groups by a bottom-up approach rather than targeting the entire population.…”

“…In order to account for the human factorenvironment-infrastructure interaction in crashes, Russo et al (2013) calibrated safety performance functions (SPFs) to predict the injury crash frequency over traffic exposure (injury crash rate) on two-lane rural roads in the Southern Italy for three main crash types (head-on/side collisions, rear-end collisions, single vehicle run-off-road crash). The results of their study revealed that when males and females are combined, females in both curved dry road surfaces and curved wet road surfaces during both day and night time are more cautious with single vehicle crash circumstances than males.…”

Fatal Road Traffic Accidents in Niamey about 133 Cases of Death

“…From these studies it is apparent that the age and gender of drivers considered together further refines how those factors contribute to crashes. Countermeasures (structural road interventions and/or safety awareness campaigns) can be planned to reduce the highest rate of injury crash for each gender and road scenario: the awareness campaigns cannot be generalized or vague but must be organized by age and gender, because this study shows that crash dynamics alter as these factors change, with consideration for the varying psychological traits of the driver groups [10].…”

A statistical look at gender and age differences as related to the injury crash type on low-volume roads

“…The number of possible strategies for road safety improvements depend on the specific available resources at the time and they can be equal to the variables employed in the model on which it can actually work: before-after evaluations [17][18][19][20] allow us to check the safety benefits of improvements.…”