Determinant contributing variables to severity levels of pedestrian crossed the road crashes in three cities in Indonesia

Abstract

Objective

The study has two objectives: (1) to determine the factors on severity levels of pedestrian crossed the road crashes in three cities in Indonesia, (2) to suggest countermeasures at the most crash-prone areas in each city.

Methods

Study areas are chosen based on the highest pedestrian fatality rate in Central Java Province. The determinant severity levels are based on 19 variables categorized into the pedestrian, road, environment, vehicle, and drivers’ characteristics. The crash data was collected from Indonesia Traffic Corps’ (Korlantas) database and site visits to all crash locations. The data was processed using the Ordered Probit Model (OPM) Method to find the contributing variables to determine Pedestrian Crossing Road crash severity level.

Results

The significant variables are different in each city; Tegal is Crash location (0.296) and Type of Vehicle (0.176), Salatiga are Pedestrian age (0.484) and type of vehicle (0.472), Magelang are Road hierarchy (–0.582) and Driving license ownership (–0.262).

Conclusions

Each city has unique variables to determine the severity level. Therefore, treatments and countermeasures must be specific to each city based on study findings.

Keywords:

• Pedestrian crossed the road
• fatal crash
• ordered probit model
• level of severity

Acknowledgment

Acknowledgments are also extended to Agustiani and Mirhanty for their assistance in this study.

Additional information

Funding

We would like to thank for Universitas Indonesia provides this research through PUTI Grant No. NKB-1741/UN2.RST/HKP.05.00/2020, and KORLANTAS for the permission to access the IRSMS crash database.