Best Practice System for Measures to Improve Safety on Interurban Roads

A promising approach consists of using comprehensive analysis to identify safety deficits at accident blackspots on roads and eliminate them using suitable safety measures. Accident blackspots on interurban roads in Bavaria are consistently identified every three years for the entire state of Bavaria. In total the interurban road network in Bavaria is comprised of about 19,100 km. In order to be better analyse the complex interactions between the incidence of accidents, accident causes and remedial measures including their effectiveness, all relevant information relating to accident blackspots is collected and stored in a central database. This data management constitutes the basis for the effectiveness evaluation of these measures. Until now a total of more than 3,000 accident striking road sites or sections on interurban roads in Bavaria have been investigated, centralized, evaluated and standardized. The evaluation results are implemented in a coherent, comprehensible and practical way in a web application. The main purpose of this application is to help the accident commissions in Bavaria select those remedial measures that have been proven in practice to be particularly successful and economical and to systematically use them for the treatment of accident blackspots in their daily work.

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  • https://proceedings-seoul2015.piarc.org/ressources/files/2/IP0061-Spahn-E.pdf
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission of the World Road Association – PIARC.
• Corporate Authors:

  World Road Association (PIARC)

  La Grande Arche, Paroi Nord, Niveau 5
  F-92055 La Defense Cedex,   France 
• Authors:
  • Spahn, V
  • Zender, P
  • Linder, T
• Conference:
  • 25th World Road Congress
  • Location: Seoul , Korea, South
  • Date: 2015-11-3 to 2015-11-7
• Publication Date: 2015

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 16p
• Monograph Title: Proceedings of the 25th World Road Congress - Seoul 2015: Roads and Mobility - Creating New Value from Transport

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Best practices; Crash data; Crash severity; High risk locations; Highway safety; Measures of effectiveness; Roads; Rural highways; Traffic crashes
• Geographic Terms: Bavaria (Germany)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01676800
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9782840604235
• Report/Paper Numbers: 0061
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 26 2018 2:42PM