Effect of sports on prevention against traffic accidents and related injury

Research Project

Project/Area Number	15K18130
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Civil engineering project/Traffic engineering
Research Institution	Saitama University
Principal Investigator	KOJIMA Aya 埼玉大学, 理工学研究科, 准教授 (40637998)
Project Period (FY)	2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
Budget Amount *help	¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000) Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000) Fiscal Year 2015: ¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000)
Keywords	交通安全 / 高齢者 / 交通事故 / 運動 / 歩行者 / 運動・スポーツ
Outline of Final Research Achievements	This study focused on the effect of sports on prevention against traffic accidents involving old people. We conducted a questionnaire survey for 2,453 respondents who were 65 old or older than 65, and 200 of them have not done any sports and the others do exercises or one sport. The result suggested that seniors doing some types of sports tend to take appropriate action to avoid traffic accidents. We also conducted an experiment using a simulation machine for crossing zebra on a road. The subjects are old people who play tennis and who do not do any sports, and university students: all the subjects were men. The result of the experiment showed that old people who playing tennis more frequently turned their head to right and left to see vehicles during they were crossing the road in the simulation machine.