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)
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Supplemental Notes:
- Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Traffic Conflicts Techniques.
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Corporate Authors:
Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV
Bezuidenhoutseweg 62
The Hague, Netherlands 2594 AW -
Authors:
- HYDEN, C
- GAARDER, P
- LINDERHOLM, L
- Conference:
- 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