Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Rail Transit and Transportation (ICRTT 2024)

The Influence of Urban Built Environment on the Spatial Heterogeneity of Road Traffic Accidents

——Taking Tianjin, China as an example

Authors
Keke Zhang1, Chao Kong1, *, Wenhui Qin1, Hubin Yan1, Shaohua Wang1
1School of Automotive and Transportation, Tianjin University of Technology and Education, Tianjin, 300222, China
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Corresponding Author
Chao Kong
Available Online 16 December 2024.
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-610-9_34How to use a DOI?
Keywords
urban built environment; road traffic accidents; spatial heterogeneity; multiscale geographically weighted regression
Abstract

The urban built environment is closely related to the occurrence of traffic accidents. Accurately identifying the spatial heterogeneity characteristics of factors affecting traffic accidents is of great significance for accurate traffic safety management and control. In this study, 2,114 Traffic Analysis Zones (TAZ) in Tianjin, China were used as the research units, 25,869 road traffic accident data were collected as the dependent variable, and 12 built environment density data such as roads and Point of Interest (POI) were extracted as independent variables. After confirming the spatial dependence of the data based on the spatial autocorrelation test, three spatial econometric models of Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR), and Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression (MGWR) are constructed for optimization analysis. The research results show that MGWR is the optimal model to describe the spatial heterogeneity of traffic accidents in different built environment factors. There is a negative correlation between recreational density and intersection density with traffic accidents, while other influencing factors show a positive correlation. The regression coefficient for retail industry density is significantly higher than other influencing factors, while the regression coefficient for leisure and entertainment density is significantly lower than other influencing factors.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Rail Transit and Transportation (ICRTT 2024)
Series
Advances in Engineering Research
Publication Date
16 December 2024
ISBN
978-94-6463-610-9
ISSN
2352-5401
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-610-9_34How to use a DOI?
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© 2024 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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AU  - Keke Zhang
AU  - Chao Kong
AU  - Wenhui Qin
AU  - Hubin Yan
AU  - Shaohua Wang
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/12/16
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PB  - Atlantis Press
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