APPLICATION OF TRAFFIC CONFLICT TECHNIQUE IN AUSTRIA .INTERNATIONAL CALIBRATION STUDY OF TRAFFIC CONFLICTS. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATO ADVANCED RESEARCH WORKSHOP

The paper contains a definition of traffic-conflicts which allows differentiation between two types of conflicts: slight and serious ones. The registration of conflicts in Austria, recently carried out by observers driving along in 200 subjects' cars in Vienna, aimed at judging drivers' performance, additionally to identifying dangerous spots in the road network. The first training of observers, though, was carried out by means of video tapes and then on-the-spot. The third step, then, was to discuss events registered out of moving cars. The Vienna study showed heterogenous results: correlations between the accident record of the subjects and their conflict numbers on the standardized test course were rather low (< 0.2) whereas the overall correlations between conflicts and accident numbers on the various sections of the test-course were fairly high (> 0.5). Nevertheless, the authors found some types of erroneous behavior which in the past probably have led to higher accident numbers of some subjects. Those types of behavior were identified as errors in connection with too high a speed, too small distance from the preceding car, violations of traffic-light rules, stubborn behavior insisting on the right of way, risky overtaking. The most important aim for the malmoe experiment was to find out, if a person mostly used to conflict registrations seen from moving cars produces results comparable to those of other persons when registering traffic conflicts on-the-spot. For the covering abstract of the conference see IRRD 279243.

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• Authors:
  • RISSER, R
  • Schuetzenhoefer, A
• Publication Date: 1984

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• Pagination: p. 141-151
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  • Publication of: Springer Verlag
  • Publisher: Springer Verlag

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Conferences; Drivers; Forecasting; Hazards; High risk locations; Methodology; Near midair crashes; Recording; Surveillance
• Geographic Terms: Austria
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Data and Information Technology; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00499430
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV
• ISBN: 3-540-12716-X
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 30 1990 12:00AM