摘要：AbstractEach year, more than 200 pedestrians are involved in severe road accidents in Greece. This study aims to shed some light on vehicle-pedestrian crashes, which resulted in killed or severely injured pedestrians. For that purpose, data from year 2009 were used. The database consists of 206 killed and severely injured pedestrians in the greater Athens area. A cluster analysis is carried out in order to investigate the existence of pedestrians’ accident patterns by means of categorizing their profiles according to their personal attributes, as well as other recorded characteristics of the accident. In order to conduct the analysis, nine variables were considered, namely the age, gender and nationality of pedestrians, type and age of the vehicle involved, location (intersection or not), day of the week, time (day or night/dusk) and finally pedestrians’ position and action (not walking on the pavement, legal crossing, midblock crossing, not walking on the zebra crossing, red crossing, other action/position). The results revealed two groups of pedestrians. The characteristics of each group and their major differences will help researchers to draw important conclusions in order to carry out further research and also policy makers to promote appropriate measures in order to improve the safety of those vulnerable road users.
关键词：Pedestrians;Severe Accidents;Killed and Severely Injured Pedestrians;Cluster Analysis
