| dc.description.abstract | Nonmotorized transportation is one of the
trending transportation modes in a world where
sustainable transportation is considered vitally important.
They, being the most vulnerable road users in the road,
people are not so much motivated to walk, mostly as short
trips rather than for recreational walking. On average,
686 pedestrians are killed on roads in Sri Lanka per year.
It is important if engineering countermeasures can be
taken either to reduce the number of pedestrian crashes or
to reduce the crash severity of the same. In order to do so,
there needs to be sound evidence pointing at significant
parameters in pedestrian crashes that can be addressed
by engineering countermeasures. However, the Sri
Lankan crash reporting system maintained by Sri Lanka
Police has limited entries to carry out such a detailed
study. Hence this paper has assessed the current crash
reporting system and matched it with globally accepted
minimum crash reporting criteria as well as frequently
used pedestrian crash analyses around the world. The
findings were limited to engineering parameters such as
road geometry, the presence of road work zones, etc.
Many details are not directly available, and a researcher
is forced to collect data from secondary sources to map
with the crash site. As a result, this paper has identified
different data sources that can be used in pedestrian crash
analysis other than the data directly from the Police
database, and also identified missing but important data
entries such as road alignment. | en_US |
