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Factors influencing risk and severity of cycling accidents
- In 2011 399 cyclists died in road accidents in Germany and another 76.351 cyclists have been injured. Since 2000 the number of injured or fatally injured cyclists remained on the same high level. Cyclists form 19% of all casualties in German road traffic, although the modal split rate of this transport mode in 2008 was only 10% of trips and resp. 3% of kilometres per day. The high proportion of fatally and seriously injured shows the high vulnerability of cyclists. The demographic shift towards an older population in Germany and the governmental recommendation of increased bicycle use as an ecological, economical and healthy alternative to other modes of transport lead to the assumption that bicycle use especially of elderly people will increase. Based on these facts about the German cyclists' situation a representative survey of 2.000 cyclists was conducted. Results display use patterns and accident involvement on a descriptive level. Overall 7.7% of cyclists report to have been involved in at least one road traffic accident within the last three years. The performed path model analysis reveals an acceptable model fit. Though the explained variance of accident involvement of the applied psychological factors was low, significant relations between several of these factors and especially risky behaviour could be found.
Author: | Ariane von Below |
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Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2015/10/20 |
Year of first publication: | 2014 |
Release Date: | 2015/10/20 |
Tag: | Deutschland; Einstellung (psychol); Radfahrer; Risiko; Schweregrad (Unfall; Sicherheit; Unfall; Verhalten; Verletzung) Accident; Attitude (psychol); Behaviour; Cyclist; Germany; Risk; Safety; Severity (accid; injury) |
Comment: | Volltext verfügbar unter: http://tra2014.traconference.eu/papers/html/papers.html |
Source: | Transport Research Arena 2014 |
Institutes: | Abteilung Verhalten und Sicherheit im Verkehr / Abteilung Verhalten und Sicherheit im Verkehr |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 36 Soziale Probleme, Sozialdienste / 360 Soziale Probleme und Sozialdienste; Verbände |
collections: | BASt-Beiträge / ITRD Sachgebiete / 83 Unfall und Mensch |