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The impact of roadway conditions towards accident severity on federal roads in Malaysia

The fatal accidents on the roads remain a global concern. Daily, approximately 18 traffic accidents occur in the Peninsular Malaysia that cause on an average one death in every hour, a situation that needs preventive measures. The development of the effective strategies to reduce such fatal accident...

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Main Authors: Musa, Mohad Fedder, Hassan, Sitti Asmah, Mashros, Nordiana
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2020
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TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/91322/1/SittiAsmahHassan2020_TheImpactofRoadwayConditions.pdf
http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/91322/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235564
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spelling my.utm.913222021-06-30T12:07:48Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/91322/ The impact of roadway conditions towards accident severity on federal roads in Malaysia Musa, Mohad Fedder Hassan, Sitti Asmah Mashros, Nordiana TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) The fatal accidents on the roads remain a global concern. Daily, approximately 18 traffic accidents occur in the Peninsular Malaysia that cause on an average one death in every hour, a situation that needs preventive measures. The development of the effective strategies to reduce such fatal accidents requires the identification of various risk factors including the road condition. We identified such accident severity issues using the public work and police department databases that consisted of 1067 cases of various severity levels occurred on the Malaysian federal roads during 2008 to 2015. These records were used to develop ordered logistic regression model for the accident severity and nine variables were analyzed. The results revealed that the presence of poor horizontal alignment affected the model outcomes. The likelihood of the more serious accident severity due to the poor horizontal alignment was correspondingly about 0.4 times less compared to the absence of such factors. It is established that the present findings may assist the local authorities to take proactive actions to prevent serious road accidents on the road segments possessing the standard horizontal alignment. Public Library of Science 2020-07 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/91322/1/SittiAsmahHassan2020_TheImpactofRoadwayConditions.pdf Musa, Mohad Fedder and Hassan, Sitti Asmah and Mashros, Nordiana (2020) The impact of roadway conditions towards accident severity on federal roads in Malaysia. PLoS ONE, 15 (7). pp. 1-12. ISSN 1932-6203 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235564 DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0235564
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topic TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
spellingShingle TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Musa, Mohad Fedder
Hassan, Sitti Asmah
Mashros, Nordiana
The impact of roadway conditions towards accident severity on federal roads in Malaysia
description The fatal accidents on the roads remain a global concern. Daily, approximately 18 traffic accidents occur in the Peninsular Malaysia that cause on an average one death in every hour, a situation that needs preventive measures. The development of the effective strategies to reduce such fatal accidents requires the identification of various risk factors including the road condition. We identified such accident severity issues using the public work and police department databases that consisted of 1067 cases of various severity levels occurred on the Malaysian federal roads during 2008 to 2015. These records were used to develop ordered logistic regression model for the accident severity and nine variables were analyzed. The results revealed that the presence of poor horizontal alignment affected the model outcomes. The likelihood of the more serious accident severity due to the poor horizontal alignment was correspondingly about 0.4 times less compared to the absence of such factors. It is established that the present findings may assist the local authorities to take proactive actions to prevent serious road accidents on the road segments possessing the standard horizontal alignment.
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author Musa, Mohad Fedder
Hassan, Sitti Asmah
Mashros, Nordiana
author_facet Musa, Mohad Fedder
Hassan, Sitti Asmah
Mashros, Nordiana
author_sort Musa, Mohad Fedder
title The impact of roadway conditions towards accident severity on federal roads in Malaysia
title_short The impact of roadway conditions towards accident severity on federal roads in Malaysia
title_full The impact of roadway conditions towards accident severity on federal roads in Malaysia
title_fullStr The impact of roadway conditions towards accident severity on federal roads in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed The impact of roadway conditions towards accident severity on federal roads in Malaysia
title_sort impact of roadway conditions towards accident severity on federal roads in malaysia
publisher Public Library of Science
publishDate 2020
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/91322/1/SittiAsmahHassan2020_TheImpactofRoadwayConditions.pdf
http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/91322/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235564
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