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Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Yamaguchi University Volume 55 Issue 2
published_at 2005-03

Analysis of traffic accidents on two-lane roads

2車線道路における交通事故分析
Uchida Kentaro
Ishiuchi Kazuya
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An influence of geometric road condition and land-use of roadside on traffic accident was investigated based on 552 traffic accident occurred in a road section specified as a black spot by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. The road section of investigation was the 32.1-33.3 kp of National Road 190 and this section was anomalistic wide straight 2-lane road and some large store located by the roadside. The analyzed data were recorded and restored by Yamaguchi Police Department during 1995-2003. A malign influence upon traffic safety of such irregular road width and markings, and access traffic of roadside store were examined and discussed.
Creator Keywords
traffic accident
straight section
irregular width of road
roadside facilities