The role of road safety in a sustainable urban mobility: An econometric assessment of the Spanish NUTS-3 case

Abstract

There has been a structural change in mobility in major Spanish cities in recent decades, with a switch to the pattern followed in other countries in the area. A shift has taken place from a traditional Mediterranean model to a North American city stereotype, with uncontrolled motorization and major implications for public health. This article specifically analyzes negative road safety related externalities that result from this process, given that the trend seems to show a steady decline in road safety accidents on urban roads in Spain, with major differences among NUTS-3 provinces. The objective is to evaluate the factors that empirically explain these differences for the 2003-2013 period using a panel data analysis. Results show that a key role is played by urban development variables, such as population density and improvements in health services, with advances linked to more accessible and sustainable urban transportation, such as the Smart City concept. Not only does this article close a gap in the literature, but the findings can also serve as a practical guide for the development and implementation of 2 urban mobility and road safety plans, and reveals the special needs of the most vulnerable groups.

From legislation to compliance: The power of traffic law enforcement for the case study of Spain

“…Hill et al (2017), Wagenaar et al (2005) and Aparicio Izquierdo et al ( 2013) all arrived at the same conclusion and, in the case of the last of these studies, specifically for the number of police officers deployed and breath test variables for the Spanish case, although for a period prior to the legislative reforms considered in the present study. Furthermore, as stated, the present study takes in the years of severe economic crisis that affected the Spanish economy from the end of 2007 on, when these instruments were subjected to cutbacks, which, as the statistics for recent years would seem to suggest, may have exacerbated the accident rate (Castro-Nuño et al, 2018;DGT, 2018).…”

Knowledge-Mapping Analysis of Urban Sustainable Transportation Using CiteSpace

“…The development and application of intelligent transportation systems in smart cities [37,152], as described in Section 4.2, have played an important role in urban sustainable transportation promoting economic growth [3,37]. To promote the sustainable transportation development of smart cities, people have exerted extensive effort in the design, development, and construction of intelligent transportation, such as using digital, electronic, virtual, cognitive, and other technologies for design and development [140,[147][148][149], intelligent driving system design [153], intelligent logistics and Internet of things development and application [151,152], collaborative integration of fully automatic ground vehicles and smart cities [154], operation methods of new fuel-cell vehicles [151], sustainable transportation plans, intelligent transportation plans and road safety plans [155][156][157][158][159], measures to reduce the number of vehicles [159], building modern bus and subway systems [45], and modern light rail systems [66,160].…”

Modelling road traffic safety indices by means of regression with panel data

“…Fixed effect panel data models with annual dummies (to capture the common trend in all the provinces) were estimated independently for urban roads in total within a province and urban roads within the capitals of the provinces in the study by Castro-Nuño et al (2018). A total number of urban road traffic accidents and a number of urban road traffic accident fatalities per accident were modelled using the N = 50 Spanish provinces and T = 11-year time units (2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013) data structure.…”