• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.195-202
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• 2018

Jobs-housing balance refers to the situations where the employment (work) and housing (house) opportunity are coincided in certain geographical area. This paper aims to examine the impact of jobs-housing balance to traffic safety. In pursuing the above, this paper particularly focuses on modeling the traffic accidents by metropolitan area. The main results are as follows. First, three generalized linear models which are all statistically significant are developed. Jobs-housing balance factors are judged to significantly influence on traffic accidents in all models. Second, among common variables, the housing supply rate is analyzed to impact to decreasing, and economically active population and commuting trip attraction are analyzed to impact to increasing. Hence, the alleviation of jobs-housing mismatch is evaluated to be important. Finally, the jobs-housing and business trip rates in Seoul metropolitan area, and the cross-commuting rate in Busan-Ulsan metropolitan area are judged to be essential to transportation safety policies