Abstracts
Former traffic safety studies showed clearly that driver or human factor is a major contributor to road accidents. Hence, to better understand the traffic accident nature it's so vital to analyze all characteristics related to drivers involved in these accidents. This article focuses on this aspect through using a dataset representing UAE traffic accidents in the time interval between 2007 and 2010. A major focus was given in this article to analyzing the relation between traffic accidents and driver citizenship for all types of involved vehicles. This was due to the fact that drivers in UAE came from different backgrounds (over than 100 citizenships) and hence it's so important to identify citizenships with major involvement in road accidents for each vehicle type. This will allow traffic authorities to give special attentions to these citizenships and vehicle types through special traffic awareness programs, fining system or other preventive measures aiming to reduce the accidents frequency and severity levels. Results indicated that for all types of vehicles emirates nationals drivers represent the citizenship with the highest involvement rate in traffic accidents (30.02%) followed by Pakistanis (21.26%) then comes the Indians drivers with a percentage of 11.95%. Light vehicle type traffic accidents statistics shows that a general trend can be seen for all citizenships where there is an increase in the number of traffic accidents over the course of the three years. The main contribution of the paper is its uniqueness in analyzing such accidents database after the implementation of the new unified traffic law in UAE.
traffic accidents; driver; citizenship; vehicle type; United Arab Emirates
Estudos anteriores de segurança de tráfego mostraram claramente que o motorista ou o fator humano é um dos principais contribuintes para acidentes de trânsito. Assim, para melhor compreender a natureza do acidente é crucial analisar todas as características relacionadas aos motoristas envolvidos nos mesmos. Este artigo aborda esse aspecto por meio da utilização de um conjunto de dados representativos dos acidentes de trânsito dos Emirados Árabes Unidos no período entre 2007 e 2010. O foco principal do artigo é analisar a relação entre acidentes de trânsito e a cidadania de origem do motorista para todos os tipos de veículos envolvidos. Isso se deve ao fato de que os motoristas nos Emirados Árabes Unidos são de origens diferentes (mais de 100 nacionalidades) e, portanto, torna-se muito importante identificar cidadanias com maior envolvimento em acidentes de trânsito para cada tipo de veículo. Propicia-se que as autoridades de trânsito possam dar atenção especial a estas cidadanias e tipos de veículo, por meio de programas especiais de conscientização de trânsito, sistemas de multas ou outras medidas preventivas destinadas a reduzir a freqüência de acidentes e seus níveis de gravidade. Os resultados indicaram que, para todos os tipos de veículos, os motoristas nacionais dos Emirates Árabes representam a cidadania com a maior taxa de envolvimento em acidentes de trânsito (30,02%), seguido por paquistaneses (21,26%) e indianos (11,95%). Estatísticas de acidentes de tráfego com veículos leves mostram uma tendência geral de aumento no número de acidentes para todas as cidadanias. A principal contribuição do trabalho é a sua singularidade na análise do banco de dados desses acidentes após a implementação de uma nova e unificada lei de trânsito nos Emirados Árabes Unidos.
acidentes de tráfego; motorista; cidadania; tipo de veículo; Emirados Árabes Unidos
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Publication Dates
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Publication in this collection
11 Oct 2013 -
Date of issue
Apr 2013
History
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Received
31 July 2012 -
Accepted
10 Sept 2012 -
Reviewed
09 Sept 2012
