THE EFFECT ON TRAFFIC ACCIDENT CONSEQUENCES CAUSED BY TRAFFIC ENVIRONMENT DESIGN. A KNOWLEDGE-REVIEW

TRAFIKMILJOENS INVERKAN PAA KONSEKVENSERNA VID TRAFIKOLYCKOR. KUNSKAPSREDOVISNING

This study deals with the importance of the traffic environment design particularly where accidents occur and the vehicles leave the road. The main objective was to investigate consequences in built-up areas where the speed is lower but the number of obstacles in the road-side are is larger. A literature survey on earlier studies in this field of interest has been made. Local authorities, the Swedish roads department, insurance companies, car manufacturers and university researchers have been interviewed. The study shows that off-the-road accidents and injury-scale depending on the roadside area design has not been sufficienty investigated. (TRRL)

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• Corporate Authors:

  Transportforskningsberedningen

  Box 2242
  Stockholm,   Sweden 
• Authors:
  • JOHANSSON, C
• Publication Date: 1988

Language

• Swedish

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 40 p.
• Serial:
  • TFB Meddelande
  • Issue Number: 41
  • Publisher: Transportforksningsberedningen
  • ISSN: 0283-9105

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crashes; Environment; Injury severity; Layout; Ran off road crashes; Traffic; Urban areas
• Uncontrolled Terms: Severity
• ITRD Terms: 1643: Accident; 2885: Layout; 1653: Run off the road (accid); 1623: Severity (accid, injury); 755: Traffic; 313: Urban area
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00493431
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 30 1990 12:00AM