Statistics indicate that elderly drivers (drivers 65 and above) are involved in an increasingly high percentage of accidents at intersections. In order to develop countermeasures to reduce the problem, the study identified traffic and geometric characteristics that are associated with the involvement of elderly drivers in accidents and developed models relating these characteristics to the risk of accident involvement. The results have indicated that the risk of accident involvement of the elderly driver (expressed in terms of an involvement ratio) is higher at highway intersections outside cities than at intersections inside cities. It was also found that the provision of longer amber signal times and increased protection for left turn phases will be very beneficial to the older driver.


    Zugriff

    Zugriff über TIB

    Verfügbarkeit in meiner Bibliothek prüfen


    Exportieren, teilen und zitieren



    Titel :

    Accident Characteristics and Risk Assessment of Elderly Drivers


    Beteiligte:
    N. J. Garber (Autor:in) / R. Srinivasan (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1990


    Format / Umfang :

    108 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch





    Elderly drivers and accident involvement

    Brorsson,B. | Kraftfahrwesen | 1989


    Elderly Drivers and Accident Involvement

    Brorsson, B. | British Library Conference Proceedings | 1996


    What Accident Data Reveal About Elderly Drivers

    Yanik, Anthony J. | SAE Technical Papers | 1985


    An Analysis of Accident Records Involving Elderly Drivers

    Brown, D. B. / Schultz, R. G. / Transport and Road Research Laboratory; Vehicles and Environment Division et al. | British Library Conference Proceedings | 1992