IMPROVING ROAD SAFETY BY LOW-COST ENGINEERING COUNTERMEASURES

This paper discusses the work of a Road Safety Project, jointly operated by the Governments of Kenya and Finland, to apply inexpensive methods of improving road safety to roads in Nairobi and other parts of Kenya. These low-cost engineering countermeasures were designed to be as self-enforcing as possible. The Nairobi Demonstration Project has served as the main training facility in Kenya to increase knowledge and capability on traffic engineering and road safety issues. Its objectives have been: (1) provision of practical training in accident collection and analysis; (2) design of low-cost engineering countermeasures; (3) training of researchers and other engineers in monitoring and road safety programmes; (4) improving road safety in Nairobi. The project started in 1985, and its measures were partly implemented in 1988 in a pilot study; the major part of its implementation is expected during 1990. The paper presents the project's studies of: (1) road accidents at dangerous locations; (2) the effects of bumps, raised zebra crossings and rumble strips; (3) accidents, designs and efficiency estimates. Finally, it summarises some results of a general programme for improving dangerous locations on rural main roads in Kenya. Paper presented at the Second ECA/OECD African Road Safety Congress, Addis Ababa, 16-20th October 1989.

• Corporate Authors:

  United Nations

  Economic Commission for Africa, P.O. Box 3001
  Addis Ababa,   Ethiopia 

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

  2, rue André Pascal
  Paris,   France  75775 Paris Cedex 16
• Authors:
  • Gekonge, N N
  • GRANBERG, T
• Publication Date: 1989

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 12 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Crashes; Crosswalks; Data collection; Developing countries; Education; High risk locations; Improvements; Prevention; Rumble strips; Rural areas; Safety; Speed control humps; Statistics; Traffic engineering; Urban areas
• Geographic Terms: Kenya
• ITRD Terms: 1643: Accident; 1663: Accident black spot; 1661: Accident prevention; 8525: Conference; 8623: Data acquisition; 150: Developing countries; 2284: Education; 9108: Improvement; 8055: Kenya; 1659: Pedestrian crossing; 2849: Rumble strip; 328: Rural area; 2833: Speed control (struct elem); 6555: Statistics; 655: Traffic engineering; 313: Urban area
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00498552
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 30 1990 12:00AM