Identification of Hazard Location and Ranking of Measures to Improve Safety on Local Rural Roads

The project discussed in this report is a pilot project which defines procedures and methods for analysis of traffic safety characteristics of local two lane roads in rural areas. About 25% of the number of traffic accidents on two lane roads in rural areas occur on provincial roads. These accidents are responsible for about 30% of the fatalities from traffic accidents. This project utilizes a combination of a safety inspection process and analytical procedures, with respect to alignment design consistency models, to evaluate the safety of two lane local roads in rural areas.

• Record URL:
  http://ec.europa.eu/transport/roadsafety_library/publications/iasp_final_report_en.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  University of Catania

  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Viale Andrea Doria 6
  Catania,   Italy  95125

  European Union

  Rue de la Loi 200
  1049 Brussels,   Belgium 
• Authors:
  • Cafiso, S
  • La Cava, G
  • Montella, A
  • Di Graziano, A
  • Pappalardo, G
  • Taormina, S
• Publication Date: 2007-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Edition: Final Research Report, Rev. 1
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 194p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Countermeasures; High risk locations; Highway safety; Pilot studies; Ranking (Statistics); Rural highways; Safety audits; Traffic crashes; Traffic safety; Two lane highways
• Uncontrolled Terms: Analytical methods; Local roads
• Geographic Terms: Italy
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01104554
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: PROJECT TREN-03-ST-S07.31286
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Jul 17 2008 9:25AM