Causes of Traffic Accidents in Taif City and Strategies Required for Treatments

• Main Author: Elhassan, Adil Abdallah Mohammed
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2020
• Subjects: Traffic, Accidents, Saudi Arabia, Causes, Taif; http//matjournals.com/Engineering-Journals.html; sami
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3696179; https://zenodo.org/record/3696179

The aim of this important scientific paper is to study the causes of traffic accidents in Taif city and the strategies required to reduce them due to the strategic location of Taif city among the general cities of Saudi Arabia. The methodology used in this study was based on data from the competent authorities and through an electronic questionnaire distributed to a large number of community members in Taif city. The paper discussed the results of the online questionnaire efficiently and concluded with important strategies to improve traffic flow as well as reducing traffic accidents in the future on Taif city. The results obtained were analyzed and discussed. The results proved the technical feasibility of the causes of traffic accidents and important recommendations that should be applied and adhered to reduce them completely. : {"references": ["The Fifth Conference on Traffic Safety \u2013 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia \u2013 Dammam, 2020, Available at: https://internationaltraffic safety.com.", "Abdelaziz Hassan Abdelrazig, Sharafeldeen Ibrahim Bannaga, Adil. A. M Elhassan and Sami Abdullah Osman (2016), \"Towards Reducing the Number of Traffic Accidents in Khartoum State (Republic of Sudan)\", J. of Mech. and Civil Eng., (IOSR-JMCE), Volume 13, Issue 4, Ver. III pp. 25-33, e-ISSN: 2278-1684, Available at: https://www.iosrjournals. org/iosr-jmce/papers/vol13-issue4/Version-3/E1304032533.pdf", "Adil A. M. Elhassan1 and Ahmed Abdelhafiz (2019), \"Development of Downtown Traffic System of Taif City\", J. of Transport. Sys., Volume 4, Issue 3, pp. 1-8, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3463247", "Ramon Alemany, Mercedes Ayuso and Montserrat Guill\u00e9n (2013), \"Impact of road traffic injuries on disability rates and long-term care costs in Spain\", Acci. Anal. and Preven., Volume 60, pp. 95-102, Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2013.08.016.", "Al Murshidi G (2014), \"Participation challenges of Emirati and Saudi students at US universities\", Int. J. of Res. Studies in Lang. Learning, Volume 3, Issue 5, pp. 33-52, Available at: https://doi.org/10.5861/ijrsll. 2014.573."]}