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April 23, 2026Latin American Transport StudiesOpen Access

Multilevel analysis of urban form and road safety: An application for developing-country cities

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HBHumberto Barrera-JimenezMSMark StevensonThe University of Melbourne

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Analysis identifies urban form impacts on road safety in developing cities, suggesting new intervention opportunities.

Key Points

  • Examine how urban form affects road safety in developing-country cities, emphasizing meso-level analysis.
  • Developed stratified generalised linear models at the meso level (districts and neighborhoods)
  • Mapped collision-prone zones and performed multilevel analysis integrating micro and macro data
  • Identified four urban form types through spatial arrangement analysis
  • Road network arrangement is the strongest predictor of zonal risk, surpassing demographic and land use factors
  • Identified riskier areas include low-mixture and, unexpectedly, planned areas indicating car-centric design
  • Meso-level analysis uncovered opportunities for interventions missed by previous approaches.

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Barrera-Jimenez et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69e9b6aa85696592c86eb014https://doi.org/10.1016/j.latran.2026.100053
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