Road Safety Risk Assessment: An Analysis of Transport Policy and Management for Low-, Middle-, and High-Income Asian Countries

Syyed Adnan Raheel Shah, Naveed Ahmad, Yongjun Shen, Ali Pirdavani, Muhammad Aamir Basheer and Tom Brijs
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Syyed Adnan Raheel Shah: Taxila Institute of Transportation Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Engineering & Technology, Taxila 47050, Pakistan
Naveed Ahmad: Taxila Institute of Transportation Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Engineering & Technology, Taxila 47050, Pakistan
Yongjun Shen: School of Transportation, Southeast University, Sipailou 2, Nanjing 210096, China
Ali Pirdavani: Transportation Research Institute (IMOB), Hasselt University, Agoralaan, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
Muhammad Aamir Basheer: Transportation Research Institute (IMOB), Hasselt University, Agoralaan, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
Tom Brijs: Transportation Research Institute (IMOB), Hasselt University, Agoralaan, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 2, 1-30

Abstract: Road safety assessment has played a crucial role in the theory and practice of transport management systems. This paper focuses on risk evaluation in the Asian region by exploring the interaction between road safety risk and influencing factors. In the first stage, a data envelopment analysis (DEA) method is applied to calculate and rank the road safety risk levels of Asian countries. In the second stage, a structural equation model (SEM) with latent variables is applied to analyze the interaction between the road safety risk level and the latent variables, measured by six observed performance indicators, i.e., financial impact, institutional framework, infrastructure and mobility, legislation and policy, vehicular road users, and trauma management. Finally, this paper illustrates the applicability of this DEA-SEM approach for road safety performance analysis.

Keywords: risk analysis; safety; accidents; GIS; data envelopment analysis; structural equation model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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