Self-reported pedestrian falls in 15 countries worldwide

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/61989592:15210/24:73625414

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1369847824001785" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1369847824001785</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2024.07.009" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.trf.2024.07.009</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Self-reported pedestrian falls in 15 countries worldwide

Original language description

Many factors are associated with pedestrian injuries and accidents. If a pedestrian is injured in an outdoor public space, we are talking about a “pedestrian fall”. Pedestrian falls are a more common cause of pedestrian injuries than traffic crashes but have received less attention and the literature on this topic is scarce. This work aims to describe at a general level the prevalence and consequences of pedestrian falls and injuries, to make international comparisons of pedestrian falls, to identify risk factors and not least to examine the relationships between the prevalence of falls and pedestrian risk behaviour. A total of 6,373 participants from 15 countries were recruited to participate in this study. To collect data a questionnaire was used. We used a short version of the Pedestrians Behaviour Scale (PBS) to cover the risky behaviour of pedestrians. To identify groups of countries with a similar pedestrian transport situation, a hierarchical cluster analysis was performed. The analysis produced four groups of countries based on pedestrians’ safety level, popularity of walking and GDP. As for the results, we can conclude that young people and older people are more frequently involved in falls and that women report more frequent involvement in falls than males. However, the risk of getting injured in a fall is not higher than that of men. Frequent walking is associated with a lower risk of falling while walking. In contrast to this, physical activity increases such risk. The prevalence of falls and injuries seems to be weakly related to pedestrians’ risky behaviour, thus other factors such as safety infrastructure probably play an important role.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour

ISSN

1369-8478

e-ISSN

1873-5517

Volume of the periodical

105

Issue of the periodical within the volume

August

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

267-283

UT code for WoS article

001272370900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85198558413