The Driver, the Speed and the Pavement in the Accidents of the Traffic in Cuba

Cuba has a total of 64 400 km of roads, of which 17 700 are paved and in correspondence with two-lane roads in most of them, that is, more than 85%. Systematic evaluation works of the pavements have started in 1994, and qualification of Good being attained in 67% of the cases in 2001, whilst 10% were qualified as Bad. In terms of fatal-accidents the rate decreased from 10.2 to 7.0 per each 100 millions of vehicles-kilometers, date that is high in comparison with those ones from another countries. On the other hand, the operation speed studies in roads reports high values in respect to the actual possibilities of the road safety that offer the same ones, taking into account the state of the road signals, the pavement surface characteristics, the restrictions in minimum visibility distance in driving, the treatment and fracture of the pavement edges, the presence of commercial vehicles, the technical state of the vehicles and motivations, actions and non-adequate reactions of the drivers while driving, which causes, among other things, the incident of sorry traffic accidents. In this report, the possibilities and results that have been attained in Cuba for the monitoring of the causes provoking the traffic accidents - taking as basis the non-fullfilment of the Minimum Breaking Distance in different sectors of the roads, are analyzed. Actual results that have been attained in technical inspection works are given, and an economic valuation of the benefits being reached by the reduction of the traffic accidents in the roads of the country is carried out. For the covering abstract see ITRD E135448.

• Authors:
  • GARCIA, E D
  • LEAL, J C
• Publication Date: 2004

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 6p
• Serial:
  • PROCEEDINGS OF THE 22ND PIARC WORLD ROAD CONGRESS,19-25 OCTOBER 2003, DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA -INDIVIDUAL PAPERS STRATEGIC THEME 3

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Crashes; Drivers; Fatalities; Highway safety; Speed
• Identifier Terms: Permanent International Association of Road Congresses
• Geographic Terms: Cuba; West Indies
• ITRD Terms: 1643: Accident; 8525: Conference; 1772: Driver; 1602: Fatality; 8310: PIARC; 1665: Safety; 5408: Speed; 8126: West Indies
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; I70: Traffic and Transport; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01084118
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Jan 7 2008 3:51PM