WINTER MAINTENANCE AND TRAFFIC SAFETY

This subject of this paper is traffic safety from the viewpoint of traffic safety in Finland. The study emphasizes that the appearance of winter road conditions is important to traffic safety. If drivers can see that the road is slippery driver behavior can be adapted by lowering speed and this will cause a significant reduction in accidents. Road condition monitoring and cooperation between maintenance groups should also be developed in order to reduce the change of surprise winter road conditions.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Conference proceedings available on CD-ROM.
• Corporate Authors:

  World Road Association (PIARC)

  La Grande Arche, Paroi Nord, Niveau 5
  F-92055 La Defense Cedex,   France 
• Authors:
  • MALMIVUO, M
  • KARKI, O
  • MAKINEN, T
• Conference:
  • New Challenges for Winter Road Service. XIth International Winter Road Congress
  • Location: Sapporo, Japan
  • Date: 2002-1-28 to 2002-1-31
• Publication Date: 2002

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 8p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crashes; Highway safety; Road weather information systems; Transportation operations; Weather conditions; Winter maintenance
• Geographic Terms: Finland
• Subject Areas: Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Safety and Human Factors; I62: Winter Maintenance;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00921218
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 20 2002 12:00AM