The Effect of Physical Environment Factors on Child Pedestrian Severity Collisions in Peninsular Malaysia

This study is aimed at investigating the association between child-pedestrian severity levels of collisions and physical environmental variables. The outcome of this study could be applied to road safety intervention for improving engineering modifications related to children pedestrians. The retrospective analysis was carried out using 9-year data from Royal Malaysian Police records from the years 2009 to 2018. Multinomial logit modeling (MNL) was applied. The results demonstrated that the injury severity of the collisions is related to road surface material, traffic system, posted speed limit, lighting conditions, location, type of area and time of collisions. Notably, the findings revealed the importance of more in-depth studies on physical environmental features that relate to child- pedestrians’ severity level of collisions. This is essential for improvements to physical environmental designs by policymakers. Thus, policymakers and stakeholders can utilize the findings to further improve the physical environment through structure and design.