China Safety Science Journal ›› 2022, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (5): 155-162.doi: 10.16265/j.cnki.issn1003-3033.2022.05.0444

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Influence of access roads on accident risks of mountainous two-lane highway passing through villages and towns segments

JI Xiaofeng(), GENG Zhaoshi, PU Yongming**(), LU Mengyuan, QIN Wenwen   

  1. Faculty of Transportation Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming Yunnan 650504, China
  • Received:2021-11-20 Online:2022-08-17 Published:2022-11-28
  • Contact: PU Yongming

Abstract:

In order to reduce traffic accident risks of mountainous two-lane highways passing through villages and towns segments, SEM and N-K model were constructed based on road alignment, village and town environment as well as traffic accident data. Then, coupling effects of access roads and environment, vehicle and road alignment on traffic accident scale of such mountainous highways were explored, and influence of road-village distance, access road type and quantity, and intersection type on the accident risk and their coupling effects were quantitatively analyzed. The results show that access roads have significant impacts on the accident risk of the above-mentioned highways, and it has a strong coupling effect with horizontal curve factors and vertical curve ones. Road-village distance and intersection type have direct significant effect, while number and type of access roads have only indirect significant effect. The coupling risk of roads detouring villages for more than 100 meters and mechanical tillage road is maximum, with risk coupling degree at 0.359 6, while that of machine tillage road and three access roads is minimal, with coupling degree at 0.000 1.

Key words: access roads, mountainous two-lane highways, passing through villages and towns segments, accident risk, structural equation model (SEM)