Title: Environmental hazards along exclusive motorcycle lane in Malaysia
Abstract: The present study has found that 51.4 per cent and 48.6 per cent of the reported motorcycle crashes are single and multiple motorcycle crashes respectively along exclusive motorcycle lanes in Malaysia. From the total number of reported motorcycle crashes, 17.2 per cent are roadside objects related. The related roadside objects consist of guardrails, traffic sign poles, street lighting columns, tunnel wall, drainage and other obstacle objects. These objects were then categorized into narrow surface fixed object, wide surface fixed object, and non-fixed object. From this study, majority of the motorcycle crashes was found occurring at a distance of 120 cm or less, where the objects were planted or located. The distribution of injury severities for every range of lateral offsets is presented and discussed in this paper. The present study concludes that all roadside furniture are recommended to be planted at a distance not less than 120 cm away from the road edge in order to reduce the number of motorcycle crashes, which are roadside object related. By incorporating the recommendation, the injury severity of roadside object related motorcycle crashes is expected to decrease. Therefore, the present study has justified the need to develop proper design criteria in producing optimum distance of roadside furniture away from the road edge along the exclusive motorcycle lanes.
Publication Year: 2004
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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