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Comparative Evaluation of Road Safety Level and Geometric Design Consistency [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Engineering, Project, and Production Management, 2023
This paper investigates road safety levels and geometric design consistency in a road network in Greece concerning road alignment characteristics. Published literature has proved that road accidents and road safety, in general, are directly connected to ...
Antonios Panas   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prioritization methodology for roadside and guardrail improvement: Quantitative calculation of safety level and optimization of resources allocation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The attention to road safety-related issues has grown fast in recent decades. The experience gained with these themes reveals the importance of considering these aspects in the resource allocation process for roadside and guardrail improvement, which is ...
Cantisani, Giuseppe   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Increase road safety or reduce road danger: challenging the mainstream road safety discourse

open access: yesTraffic Safety Research
The domain of road safety has a longstanding history in academic research and a well-established position in policy circles. In different contexts in different degrees, this has resulted in important and meaningful interventions that increased overall ...
Marco te Brömmelstroet
doaj   +3 more sources

CAUSES ANALYSIS OF SERIOUS ROAD ACCIDENTS IN ROMANIA [PDF]

open access: yesAnnals of the University of Petroşani. Mechanical Engineering, 2023
Improving road safety is a priority at both international and national level, and reducing deaths and injuries in road accidents has been set as a goal by both the United Nations and the European Union.
Sorin Mihăilescu
doaj  

Consistency and stability of risk indicators: The case of road infrastructures [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Over the last decade, the World Road Association – PIARC and several European research projects, among which Ecoroads, have encouraged a promising reflection on risk analysis methods, acceptance criteria and safety practices applied to the road system ...
Di Mascio, Paola   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Improving safety in Greek road tunnels [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Tunnels are regarded as one of the most important infrastructures in Europe, as they may improve the connection of regions and aid economic development through facilitating the transportation of people and goods.
Kazaras, K.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Tools for road infrastructure safety management in poland

open access: yesMATEC Web of Conferences, 2017
Road safety can be improved by implementing principles of road safety infrastructure management (RIS) on the network of European roads as adopted in the Directive.
Kustra Wojciech, Michalski Lech
doaj   +1 more source

Commercial motorcyclists and road safety measures compliance. A case study of Dodoma city, central Tanzania

open access: yesHeliyon, 2022
Objective: Road traffic accidents have been reported to contribute a greater proportion of deaths. Motorcyclists are among the high-risk group within road users to succumb to road traffic accidents.
Jackson Silvano Nzuchi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Road Traffic Safety Development Trends in Latvia

open access: yesThe Baltic Journal of Road and Bridge Engineering, 2021
The main focus of this article is on the road traffic safety development trends in Latvia. Soon after the regain of independence at the beginning of the 1990s, road traffic safety characteristics in Latvia were the worst in the Latvian history.
Juris Kreicbergs   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Making in-class skills training more effective: the scope for interactive videos to complement the delivery of practical pedestrian training

open access: yes, 2015
Skills and awareness of young pedestrians can be improved with on-street practical pedestrian training, often delivered in schools in the United Kingdom by local authorities with the intention of improving road safety. This training is often supplemented
Ben Waterson   +7 more
core   +1 more source

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