Consideration of Accident and Travel Behavior for children

Abstract

In Japan the largest percentage of victims of pedestrian traffic accidents are 7 years old children. However, the reason for this has not been found. The purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship between travel behavior and traffic accidents in case studies of Kagawa and Aichi. Person Trip Survey and data on traffic accidents were used. No significant differences were found between the result in Kagawa and in Aichi. The accident rate of pedestrian traffic accidents was defined as the number of pedestrian traffic accidents divided by the length of time of walking trips. The length of time of walking trips was calculated by multiplying the number of walking trips by their length of time. It was found that the greatest number of walking trips and accidents was for children aged 5 to 7 years. The accident rate of a pedestrian accident decreased for children over 5 years old. From a gender analysis, there was a greater number of boys who had pedestrian accidents than girls, however, there was no difference in the relative number of walking trips of boys and girls.