SAFER ROADS: A GUIDE TO ROAD SAFETY ENGINEERING

Many professions have a direct responsibility for road safety. One of these is the road and traffic engineering profession. Various studies have indicated that perhaps 40% or more of accident reductions which could reasonably be expected on the road system can accrue from the provision of safer roads. The following seventeen chapters provide a structure for this book's discussion of road safety engineering: 1. The Nature and Dimensions of the Road Safety Problem; 2. Safety Management Systems; 3. Human Factors in Road Traffic; 4. Data Needs and Limitations; 5. Hazardous Road Locations; 6. Diagnosis of Road Accident Problems; 7. Development of Countermeasures; 8. Road Design; 9. Intersections; 10. Delineation, Signing and Lighting; 11. Road Maintenance and Construction; 12. The Roadside; 13. Traffic Management; 14. Vulnerable Road Users; 15. Road Safety Audit; 16. Road Safety Program Appraisal; 17. Monitoring and Program Evaluation.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Avebury Technical

  Gower House, Croft Road, Aldershot
  Hampshire GU11 3HR,   England 
• Authors:
  • Ogden, K W
• Publication Date: 1996

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 536 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Countermeasures; Crash analysis; Evaluation; High risk locations; Highway delineators; Highway design; Highway maintenance; Highway safety; Highway traffic control; Human factors; Information, data, and knowledge; Intersections; Roadside; Safety management; Safety programs; Signs; Street lighting; Traffic safety; Travelers
• Uncontrolled Terms: Data needs; Program evaluation
• Old TRIS Terms: Delineators (Traffic)
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; Society; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00722191
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0291398294
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Jun 5 1996 12:00AM