Urban Road Safety—Assessment of a Road Safety Measures Tool

A just finished research project, “IRUMS – Safer urban roads”, was aimed to develop a procedure for the explicit consideration of safety issues in the decision making process of urban transportation networks and in the allocation of resources for the physical renewal network. More specifically, the criteria of the selection of hazardous urban locations (areas or sections) were defined as well as the procedure of the selection of efficient infrastructure corrective safety measures was developed. Five years of road accident records, data on road infrastructure characteristics and traffic and land use information were collected and were managed by a Geographic Information System (GIS). Integrated with this system is a developed analysis tool which can identify the type of accident (manoeuvres in the origin of each one) and connect the result to the definition of what to do in terms of the implementation of low cost countermeasures in the network. This paper focused on this analysis tool, describing the principles used, the main features, and what will be needed to achieve in order to have a full decision making tool.

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• Authors:
  • Carvalheira, Carmen
  • Santos, Luis de Picado
• Conference:
  • 3rd International Conference on Road Safety and Simulation
  • Location: Indianapolis Indiana, United States
  • Date: 2011-9-14 to 2011-9-16
• Publication Date: 2011

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 13p
• Monograph Title: 3rd International Conference on Road Safety and Simulation

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Countermeasures; Crash data; Decision making; Geographic information systems; Highway safety; Land use; Traffic crashes; Urban transportation
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I80: Accident Studies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01504404
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Jan 24 2014 2:29PM