Makau – An Innovative Web-Tool for Black Spot Management in Germany
‘Black Spot Management (BSM)’ is an important task with respect to improve road safety. As well as ‘Road Safety Audits (RSA)’ or ‘Road Safety Inspections (RSI)’ it is part of the ‘Road Infrastructure Safety Management’. While the aim of RSA and RSI is to prevent accidents through expert assessment of the infrastructure (proactive), BSM is a reactive procedure. The aim of BSM is to identify spots like shorter road sections or junctions with a high accident concentration. Furthermore, BSM includes also the accident analysis and from that the determination of appropriate countermeasures for combating ‘Accident Black Spots’. In the recent years a web-based “Catalogue of countermeasures against Accident Black Spots” (‘MaKaU’) was developed. The tool consists of two parts: Firstly, the catalogue of countermeasures itself (https://makau.bast.de/). The latest research findings on countermeasures against accident black spots have helped to update and expand the existing collection of countermeasures, which formerly was only available as a paper version. Secondly, a web-based tool was developed to assist users to determine appropriate safety measures dependent upon local constraints and the specific accident situation. This tool has to be hosted by the 16 Federal States, due to their responsibility regarding BSM and data protection regulations for accident records. Accident data can be imported from the IT-system of accident data management into the web-tool and from that a specific processing of accident black spots is possible. The main component of the tool includes the accident analysis, the identification of appropriate countermeasures, and – after their implementation – an evaluation of their effectiveness. The proposals for appropriate countermeasures are depending from the location and rely on the analysis of so called ‘Typical Conflict Situations‘ (e.g. ‘Right turning car versus straight driving cyclist at intersections‘), which are determined from the imported accident data. For the review of the adequacy, feasibility, and applicability of countermeasures (or combinations of countermeasures) a cost-benefit ratio is provided. The continual use of the tool allows the user the documentation of the work steps, especially the control of the implementation as well as the evaluation of the countermeasures. The results from the evaluations and also the real costs of each implemented measure can be used for a constant updating of the catalogue and the characteristics of each measure (in particular, degree of efficiency). This ‘Self-Learning System’ represents an integral part of ‘MaKaU’ and shall help to combat accident black spots more efficiently in the future.
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Supplemental Notes:
- Abstract reprinted with permission of the World Road Association – PIARC.
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Corporate Authors:
World Road Association (PIARC)
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Authors:
- Irzik, M
- Bärwolff, M
- Berger, R
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Conference:
- 26th World Road Congress
- Location: Abu Dhabi , United Arab Emirates
- Date: 2019-10-6 to 2019-10-10
- Publication Date: 2019
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 15p
- Monograph Title: Proceedings of the 26th World Road Congress - Abu Dhabi - 2019: Connecting Cultures - Enabling Economies
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Benefit cost analysis; Countermeasures; Crash analysis; Data analysis; High risk locations; Highway safety; Infrastructure; Safety audits; Technological innovations; Traffic crashes; Web applications
- Geographic Terms: Germany
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01761568
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Dec 29 2020 10:44AM