Characteristics of wrong-way incidents and crashes that occurred on the entire motorway network in Japan are analysed in this study with an emphasis on wrong-way crashes. Nearly 40% of vehicles in wrong-way crashes took U-turns on the main carriageway, followed by 20% entering the wrong way at interchanges after passing the tollgate, 18% before passing the tollgate and 12% at rest areas. Wrong entries and suspected dementia were the two main contributing factors for wrong-way crashes, each accounting for nearly 30% of the total number of wrong-way crashes, followed by each 8–10% for confusion with ordinary road, taking U-turns on the main carriageway and driving under the influence of alcohol. Most wrong-way crashes because of wrong entries were caused by older drivers over the age of 60 (61%) and young drivers (22%) and most of those because of confusion with ordinary road were also caused by older drivers (86%). All the wrong-way crashes caused by suspected dementia were by older drivers over the age of 65 and occurred between 4–10 p.m. Finally some applications of recent ITS technologies to prevent wrong-way driving that have been implemented recently on motorways in Japan are briefly introduced.
Characteristics of wrong-way driving on motorways in Japan
IET Intelligent Transport Systems ; 9 , 1 ; 3-11
2015-02-01
9 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
intelligent transportation systems , motorway network , wrong-way crashes , behavioural sciences computing , wrong entries , suspected dementia , road traffic , wrong-way incident characteristics , traffic engineering computing , Japan , wrong-way driving characteristics , ITS technologies , road accidents
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