AN UPDATING OF THE USE AND FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE TRAFFIC CONFLICTS TECHNIQUES

Many of the problems related to the analysis of accidents can be solved by estimating the risks indirectly by a conflict technique. Conflict technique studies were started in 1973 at the Department of Traffic Planning and Engineering of the Lund Institute of Technology in Sweden. The basic hypothesis, unchanged since 1974, says that there is a distinct relation between conflicts with a certain degree of seriousness and accidents. When those relationships have been determined the technique is practically useful. This means that after a conflict study has been undertaken actual accident risk can be calculated with a known degree of uncertainty. The different phases of the development of the Swedish technique are described. (TRRL)

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Traffic Conflicts Techniques.
• Corporate Authors:

  Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV

  Bezuidenhoutseweg 62
  The Hague,   Netherlands  2594 AW
• Authors:
  • HYDEN, C
  • GAARDER, P
  • LINDERHOLM, L
• Conference:
  • Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Traffic Conflicts Techniques.
• Publication Date: 1982

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 42-48

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Crash analysis; Development; Hazards; Injuries; Injury severity; Intersections; Methodology; Near midair crashes; Probability; Risk assessment; Speed; Theory; Traffic conflicts; Traffic crashes; Uncertainty
• Uncontrolled Terms: Severity
• Geographic Terms: Sweden
• ITRD Terms: 8525: Conference; 9013: Development; 2163: Injury; 455: Junction; 9102: Method; 1642: Near miss; 6534: Probability; 9150: Risk; 5408: Speed; 8109: Sweden; 9078: Theory
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; I80: Accident Studies; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00371427
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV
• Report/Paper Numbers: R-82-27
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 29 1983 12:00AM