This study develops a severity analysis of motor vehicle-bicycle crashes by using reported crash data from Beijing. Statistical relationships are established to relate crash severity to a variety of factors, such as:bicyclist demographics, geometric design, road environment, and crash pattern. It is found that bicyclist injury severity level could be elevated by a number of factors, which include:(1) head-on and angle collisions; (2)occurrence of running over bicyclists; (3) night without streetlight; (4) roads without median/division; (5) higher speed limit; (6) heavy vehicle involvement; and, (7) older bicyclists. In consideration of the significant effect of running over bicyclists on severe outcomes, the relationships between occurrence of running over bicyclists and crash pattern is investigated. It is found that orthokinetic scrape is more likely to result in running over bicyclists.


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    Title :

    Severity Analysis of Motor Vehicle-Bicycle Crashes


    Contributors:
    Ma, Ming (author) / Ma, Yanjun (author) / Liu, Limei (author) / Shi, Liangqing (author)

    Conference:

    14th COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals ; 2014 ; Changsha, China


    Published in:

    CICTP 2014 ; 2605-2613


    Publication date :

    2014-06-24




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English