New Approach to Better Design of Selected Road Safety Measures

The Road safety has become quite discussed issue in the Czech Republic in the end of nineties. Insufficient development of the road safety indicators starting in 1986 with the top in 1992 led to a number of different road safety activities especially at the local level. More and more people spend there study visits, business trips or holidays abroad promotes different traffic calming measures, especially roundabouts, humps, different types of more safer pedestrian crossing and new approach to the stops of public transport. New approach to research in this area is made in the project BESIDIDO made by the team of national experts coordinated by Centrum dopravniho vyzkumu (Transport research centre). Based on the state of art in selected EU countries, new analysis of the selected court expert reports, data from the Brno Trauma Centre and deep analysis of about 160 selected traffic calming measures the new guidelines has to set for further improvement of road traffic safety in the Czech Republic. Some best practices, collect in this project, may be surely used also for safety improvement also in some others EU countries. Project would be inspirational above all for a new EU country from Central and Eastern Europe.

• Corporate Authors:

  Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)

  Linköping,   Sweden  SE-581 95
• Authors:
  • Hruby, Zdenek
  • Simonova, Eva
  • Heinrich, Jaroslav
• Conference:
  • Road Safety on Four Continents: 13th International Conference
  • Location: Warsaw , Poland
  • Date: 2005-10-5 to 2005-10-7
• Publication Date: 2005-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 10p
• Monograph Title: Road Safety on Four Continents, Warsaw, Poland, 5-7 October 2005, Conference Proceedings

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Best practices; Highway design; Highway safety; Roundabouts; Speed control humps; Traffic calming; Traffic mitigation; Traffic safety
• Geographic Terms: Czech Republic; Europe
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01091432
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 23 2008 9:24AM