Identifying and Ranking the Contributory Factors on Pedestrian-Involved Accidents

The number and severity of traffic accidents, especially those involving pedestrians, imposes a heavy burden on society. This research has been done to identify and rank the influential factors on pedestrian’s accidents in Damavand city which for this purpose, information about170 accidents happened during 1391 and 1392 and also poll by asking from related organizations experts in traffic have been used. This information have been checked based on 12 factor including: relevant organizations role in traffic, color of pedestrians cloth, pedestrians pathway, kinds of certification, pathways lighting conditions, weather of place of accident, training, transportations safety, instruments in controlling traffic, geometric principals and pathways designing, sexuality and age. The purpose of this research is to identify and find the effects of factors that were said before in controlling and decreasing the pedestrian’s accident in Damavand. The required information was collected from referring to documents about pedestrians accidents. Documents about referring (recording) include traffic police reporting and sketch drawing of accidents. This researching method as a description of calibration (gauging) was done in census method all in ah, the obtained results indicate that related organizations road in traffic, color of pedestrians cloth, pedestrians pathways , kinds of certifications, pathways light, weather of place of accident, training, transportations safety instrument s in controlling traffic, geometric principals and pathways designing , gender and age are effective on pedestrians accidents in Damavand and may offers and solutions are offered in these fields.