Vision Zero for Sustainable Road Safety in the Baltic Sea Region

2019

Investigating Accidents on the main

road network in the North-West Region
of Romania
Rozalia Melania Boitor
Rodica Dorina Cadar
Mara Dumitrescu
Fatalities per million Fatalities per million inhabitants by
inhabitants by country in 2018 country – evolution 2010-2018

EU, Fact Sheet. 2018 road safety statistics: what is behind the figures?
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Fatalities per million Road network (km) and
inhabitants by country in 2018 road density (km/100 sq. km)

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Fatalities per million Motorway network (km) and
inhabitants by country in 2018 motorway density (km/100 sq. km)

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 Case study: North-West Region of Romania,
between 2015 and 2018
Sources of data used in this research:
 National Institute of Statistics Romania;
 Eurostat;
 Traffic Department of the General
Inspectorate of Romanian Police;
 OpenStreetMap;
 Romanian INSPIRE Geoportal.
Macroregion 1 N-W Region 6 counties
Data analyses were performed in Excel and the
spatial statistical analyses were conducted using
ArcGIS.

There is no possibility to drastically reduce the number of victims of traffic accidents given the increasing motorization
rate and mobility, while road infrastructure development is not being carried out at the same rate.
The National Strategy for Road Safety for 2015-2020

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 Cities, Comm Highway National County Local Density of Motorisati Road motor Number of Vehicles Fatalities
County Population
Area Population
(sq. km) density
Localities North-West Region of Romania
s Express
towns unes roads roads Roads roads
roads (km/100
sq. km)
accidents involved
on rate vehicle rate 2015-2018 2015-2018 2015-2018
Bihor 562,750 7,544 75 458 10 91 0 528 990 1,485 39.8 341 447 2,118 3,261 168
Bistrița – Năsăud 279,500 5,355 52 249 4 58 0 315 698 583 29.8 302 396 2,238 3,286 156
Cluj 705,914 6,674 106 434 6 75 68 566 1,279 983 42.4 357 456 4,908 7,843 236
Maramureș 462,012 6,304 73 247 13 63 0 371 785 653 28.7 307 396 2,405 3,600 161
Satu Mare 333,627 4,418 76 234 6 59 0 303 838 570 38.7 330 427 1,232 1,805 139
Sălaj 212,836 3,864 55 289 4 57 0 286 632 873 46.3 329 427 1,343 1,907 104
Total (N-W Region) 2,556,639 34,160 75 1911 43 403 68 2,369 5,222 5,147 37.3 333 430 14,244 21,702 964

12760 333 350

308
279 12738 300
12740 261
250
12720 12713
200
12700
12679 150
12678
12680
100
12660 50
12640 0
2015 2016 2017 2018

Motorization rate in N-W Region

Length of total road network in N-W Region

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The Road Accident 14244

Database Analysis 12738

Accidents, Vehicles & participants

characteristics

4908

3003 2828
2118 2238 2405
2020 1809 1711 1791
1596 1343
1039 1232
369 228 164 122 98
N-W Region BH BN CJ MM SM SJ

Road network length

Number of accidents 2015-2018
Number of accidents involving HGV, LGV, PT 2015-2018

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Results and Findings
Data analyses on accidents involving HGV,
LGV and PT vehicles

120

100

80

60

40

20

0
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 159
160 151 154
140 134 132 129
120
120 111
104 102
100 96 91
78 76
Results and Findings
80 65 68
60 50 49 49 47
40
Data analyses on accidents involving HGV, 20
19 19
11
6
LGV and PT vehicles 0
Outside the built-up area Inside the built-up area

HGV 2015 HGV 2016 HGV 2017 HGV 2018 LGV 2015 LGV 2016
LGV 2017 LGV 2018 PT 2015 PT 2016 PT 2017 PT 2018
120

100

80

60

40

20

0
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Results and Findings
Spatial analysis on accidents involving HGV, LGV and PT vehicles

• 14244 accidents recorded in the N-W Region

• 13995 points within the boundaries of the region

• 2020 accidents involving LGV, HGV or PT vehicles

• 1982 points within the boundaries of the region

• black corridors in the N-W Region

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Results and Findings
Spatial analyses on accidents involving HGV, LGV and PT vehicles

black corridors in the N-W Region dangerous localities in the N-W Region

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Results and Findings
Spatial and spatial statistical analyses on accidents involving HGV, LGV and PT vehicles

dangerous areas in the N-W Region Statistically relevant dangerous areas (the first ring of the
metropolitan area of Cluj-Napoca, the regional city center)
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Results and Findings
Spatial analysis on participants involving HGV, LGV and PT vehicles

• 964 people died on the roads of the N-W Region between

2015 and 2018
• 238 lives were lost in accidents involving HGV, LGV and PT
vehicles (25%), 787 people were severely injured and 1750
slightly injured

Annual Fatalities
70 65
62
59
60
52
50
40
30
20
10
0
2015 2016 2017 2018

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Results and Findings
Spatial analysis on participants involving HGV, LGV and PT vehicles

Vulnerable or “deadly” areas in the N-W Region

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Results and Findings
Spatial analysis on participants involving HGV, LGV and PT vehicles versus heat maps of accident location

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 Results and Findings
Spatial statistical analysis on participants involving HGV, LGV and PT vehicles

Statistically relevant vulnerable municipalities

extremely dangerous localities, most relevant hotspots 99%
• the metropolitan area of Oradea near the border
• the regional pole of Cluj-Napoca
very dangerous localities
• Municipalities around Cluj-Napoca, in proximity of Oradea
and linear localities in BN county, all located on the main
road network
dangerous localities
• linear localities on the national road

Considering the results of the Fatalities Hot Spot Analysis,

Vulnerable or “deadly” municipalities in the N-W Region
based on the fatalities’ occurrence and the reliability level
of the pattern,
Fatalities Hot Spot Analysis can be used to classify the
potential level of danger of the road network of localities
and of urgency for intervention

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 Conclusions
Accidents involving HGV, LGV and PT vehicles

The future version of The National Strategy for Road Safety should include a specific objective in
regard to road network improvements - the need for the construction of a reliable road network
of infrastructure dedicated to high-speed and freight vehicles, namely motorways, expressways,
ring roads, bypasses, and collector streets in order to bypass vulnerable localities documented in
this research as accidents hotspots and fatalities hotspots and ease the burden of the black
corridors in the N-W Region.
Furthermore, the document should clearly specify the need for appropriate facilities for the road
freight and passenger transport, which are also important factors for the drivers.
In terms of the integrated planning process, another specific objective should refer to reviewing
planning and urban development norms and including details referring to urbanization along
transit roads - European, national, county – to limit the linear development of existing localities
along these.
The accident data collection should include vehicle category, according to the Romanian traffic
norms, along with the vehicle characteristics.
A future analysis will focus on the municipalities in order to establish relationships between
variables such as: road network density, number of accidents and number of fatalities, etc.
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