The long distance buses safety situation from a new database created using road crashes mass media coverage in Ecuador

Fabricio Espinoza-Molina; Paúl Narváez-Villa; Blanca del Valle Arenas-Ramírez; Marco Amaya-Pinos; Francisco Aparicio-Izquierdo

doi:10.1016/j.jth.2022.101466

The long distance buses safety situation from a new database created using road crashes mass media coverage in Ecuador

Fabricio Espinoza-Molina, Paúl Narváez-Villa, Blanca del Valle Arenas-Ramírez, Marco Amaya-Pinos, Francisco Aparicio-Izquierdo

Research Group in Transportation Engineering (GIIT)

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Abstract

Problem: In Ecuador, the main mean of passenger public transport between cities is the bus. In 2016 was the responsible for 7% of the road crashes. The official road crash database lacks of disaggregated information related to road crashes with Long Distance Buses (LDB). In this research some relevant data of road crashes with at least one LDB involved (RC-LDB), reported in the news and social networks is compared with the official statistics from National Transit Agency (NTA-DB). Method: ology: The empirical, retrospective, documentary and descriptive methodology (COOPERA-TCP) was applied for the RC-LDB data collection based on the information published in the Mass Media Reporting (MMR). Results: In the period 2015–2017, in Ecuador 119 RC-LDB have produced 225 deaths, 594 and 1008 serious and minor injured respectively. The quantitative results achieved because the disaggregated selected data, allows the development of more specific studies. Conclusions: The two subsets comparison, revealed that some important variables are not collected, and there is an underreporting of deaths in official statistics. The new RC-LDB database is a huge contribution to deal with Ecuadorian LDB road safety behaviour studies. It could be extended to other road user groups in countries where there is limited access to reliable and structured road crashes information system.

Original language	English
Article number	101466
Journal	Journal of Transport and Health
Volume	26
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2022.101466
State	Published - Sep 2022

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Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank the Grupo de Investigación en Ingeniería del Transporte (GIIT) of the Universidad Politécnica Salesiana (UPS), Cuenca, Ecuador and the Fundación Eduardo Barreiros for support to carry out this work, within the framework of the “Eduardo Barreiros Automóvil y Movilidad Sostenible” chair and to the Instituto Universitario de Investigación del automóvil Francisco Aparicio Izquierdo of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. (INSIA UPM) for the human and financial resources provided for this work. The authors would also like to thanks the Community of Madrid, for its partial funding which, through the SEGVAUTO 4.0-CM ( P2018/EMT-4362 ) program, has contributed to its development and dissemination. We would also like to thank Sonia Cal for her translation.

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Keywords

Latin America road safety
Long distance buses
Mass media
Public passenger transport
Social networks
Telematics media

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