Measurement of Traffic Accident Size Using Structural Equation Modeling
Periodic Research (P: ISSN No. 2231-0045 RNI No. UPBIL/2012/55438 VOL.-7, ISSUE-4 (Part-1) May-2019 E: ISSN No. 2349-9435)
Abstract
Pankaj Prajapati
Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Technology & Engineering, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujrat, India
Traffic Accident size can be expressed as the number of deaths and/or the number of injured. Accident size is the one of the important indices to measure the level of safety of transportation facilities. Factors such as road geometric condition, driver characteristic and vehicle type may be related to traffic accident size. However, all these factors interact in complicate ways so that the interrelationships among the variables are not easily identified. A structural equation model (SEM) is adopted to capture the complex relationships among variables because the model can handle complex relationships among endogenous and exogenous variables simultaneously and furthermore it can include latent variables in the model. In this study, we use accident data having 1867 traffic accident rewarded in Vadodara city since 2013 to 2017 and estimate relationship among exogenous factors and traffic accident size. The model suggests that road factors, vehicle factors, victim factors and time factors are strongly related to the accident size.
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