Summary 4

The impact of roadway conditions towards accident
severity on federal roads in Malaysia

1.Muhammad Arif Iman
Bin Badairuddin
(33DFO21F1021)
2.Mohamad Zikry Bin
Saperee (33DFO21F1022)
DFO1A

The impact of roadway conditions towards accident
severity on federal roads in Malaysia

Written By,
•Mohad Fedder Musa
•Sitti Asmah Hassan
•Nordiana Mashros

With the developing populaces and vehicles on the streets, the auto collisions and related
passings have been steadily expanding overall. This disturbing circumstance should be
restrained to bypass the massive financial misfortune and save lives. As per the reports of the
World Wellbeing Organization and World Bank, the countries with low and center profit are
seriously impacted by the fatalities of the street deals, contributing roughly 90% of the street
mishaps related passings all around the world. Indeed, the populace with working age went
from 15what's more 64 years convey the overwhelming majority of the street mishap fatalities
and long haul handicaps. An estimated starting around 2000 uncovered that, the street mishaps
in Malaysia alone is answerable for the increment of the demise rate by roughly 14%. As per the
Malaysian Ministry of Transport report, the absolute number of street mishaps over the
previous decade have expanded by roughly 41%, added up to 369,319 and 521,466 incidents in
the extended period of 2007 and 2016,individually. Thus, the complete number passings were
increased from 6,282 to 7,152. In similar period, the complete number of vehicles engaged with
the street mishaps were expanded from 666,027 to 960,569 (roughly 44% ascent). In Malaysia,
the private vehicles being the essential method of transportation. Its number (formally enrolled)
has been consistently expanded from 97,262 (in the time of 1980) to 284,461 (in the extended
period of 2016). Fig 1 shows the quantity of enlisted vehicles in Malaysia as indicated by their
sorts.

MAIN POINT
1) Presence of complex geometrical design standards and

soaring traffic volumes became a priority
2) Road design that not relevan.
3) Dim and broken road lighting.
4) Vehicle lights that are not working properly.
5) Some roads that always have environmental impacts.

FINDING

This communication depicts the development of accident severity
model by considering the most significant geometrical road factors
attributes to accident severity on federal roads in Malaysia with which
is horizontal alignment. The modelling outcome suggested that such
factors are greatly served the respective stakeholders in managing the
road facilities.

CAUSES/EFFECT
1. Driver negligence
- The attitude of a driver who violates the rules such as driving over the set speed
limit
2. Road conditions
- Road that is damaged and not well maintained.
3. Vehicle condition
- Vehicles that are not serviced according to the scheduled time.

SUGGEST RECOMMENDED
1. The government needs to take actions such as tightening traffic laws for

example increasing the rate of fined.
2. Authorities such as (JKR) need to take action in maintaining the damaged

roads.
3. Drivers need to be more sensitive when it’s time to maintain their

vehicles.

VALUES
1. Responsibility
- driver, government and Authorities need to play their part in carrying out
their respective responsibilities.
2. Smart
-Drivers need to be smart when on the road such as obey the rules on the
road.

CONCLUSION

The results obtained from the model revealed that by optimizing the usage of
the available personnel and resources an effective strategy for the accidents
(with high-risk factors) prevention can be developed. However,the long-term
accident data with finer details can be used in the proposed model to predict
more accurately the road accident fatalities in Malaysia. Other related
information such as the road density, road network, level of service (LOS) of the
road facilities, population distribution, socio-economic situation, topography,
temporal and spatial factors, and environmental conditions (air, climate change,
ambient temperature and noise) must be considered to determine the significant
factors that contribute to the higher chances of fatalities. In addition, the impact
of the drivers behaviour or characteristics such as the speed choice, age,
gender and safety precautions while driving (for example the use of seat belt or
helmet) on the accident severity (such as the PDO, injury, or fatality levels) are
worth exploring. Inclusion of all these factors may enable us to develop a
holistic approach towards the road safety measures. On top, the information
from the hospital on the road accidents related injuries can be beneficial to
integrate with the PWD and police-related database for developing a complete
model. The future work in accident severity model is extended to include the
existence of multiple accident severity with bigger sample size, and the use of
advanced methodological alternatives that take heterogeous effects into
consideration. In short, the proposed accident severity model based disclosure
is established to be prospective to improve its predictive ability so that an
effective mitigation strategy can be initiated in a holistic way.