| dc.description.abstract | Non motorized transportation is one of the trending transportation modes in a world
where sustainable transportation is considered as 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 an 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 need to be sound evidence pointing
at significant parameters in pedestrian crashes that can be addressed by engineering
countermeasures. However, Sri Lankan crash reporting system maintained by Sri Lanka
Police have limited entries to carry out such a detailed study. Hence this paper has
carried out an assessment of 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, presence of road work zone, etc. Many details are not directly
available, and the 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, also
has identified missing but important data entries such as road alignment. | en_US |
