An analysis of accidents involving public transport along highway

• Published in: IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
• Main Author: Shariff S.S.R.; Nusa F.N.M.; Hanizan H.A.; Taib M.N.
• Format: Conference paper
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Physics 2022
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85131206906&doi=10.1088%2f1755-1315%2f1022%2f1%2f012021&partnerID=40&md5=c40718d45d09102d74145c517ec0e799

For years, Malaysia is known as one of the countries that has the highest figure of fatality accident. The staggering number of fatality accidents usually involved private transportation. There are a lot of studies that focus on the causes of the accidents and therefore, a lot of policies and law enforcement have been implemented in order to reduce fatality figure in private transportation. Unfortunately, studies in public transport are not at par with private transportation. Therefore, this study is aimed to analyse the accidents involving public transport specifically, buses along selected Malaysian highway. The analysis starts at describing the potential effects of physical factors namely locations and types of vehicles. Details statistical analysis on the effects of the two factors, locations and types of vehicles on the number of accidents are done. Results show that for the accidents that involve buses in 2018 and 2019, and locations of the accidents have significant association. Hence, this result should help bus drivers to be more alert when driving thru the identified locations. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.