Highlights Spatially examines the relationships between crash frequency and various factors, including demographics, traffic exposure, and roadway characteristics. MGWR outperforms OLS and GWR in identifying spatial relationships between contributing factors and crash frequencies. Regions with more low-wage workers and higher employment and household entropy tend to have increased crash frequencies.
Abstract Understanding the relationship between social disparities and traffic crash frequency is essential for long-term transportation planning and policymaking. Few studies have systemically examined the influence of socioeconomic and infrastructure-related disparities in macro-level traffic crash frequency. This study provides a framework to spatially examine the relationships between crash rates and demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, as well as roadway infrastructure and traffic characteristics at the Census Block Groups (CBGs) level. Spatial autocorrelation analysis was first performed on the residual of the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) model to identify whether non-stationarity exists. Then, the Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) model and the Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression (MGWR) model were applied to assess the impacts of these factors on crash rates spatially and statistically. Our findings indicate that MGWR outperforms both OLS and GWR in uncovering the spatial relationships between contributing factors and both fatal and injury (FI) crashes as well as property damage only (PDO) crashes. A thorough examination of local coefficient maps highlighted six pivotal variables that significantly influenced a majority of CBGs. Improving infrastructure, including pedestrian pathways and public transit facilities, in low-income areas can offer significant benefits. These findings and recommendations can inform the development of effective strategies for reducing crashes and guide the appropriate selection of modeling techniques for macro-level crash analysis.
Decoding the impacts of contributory factors and addressing social disparities in crash frequency analysis
2023-11-05
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