The Swedish National Road Safety Programme — A New Approach to Road Safety Work

1997 ◽  
pp. 73-86
Author(s):  
Kåre Rumar
Keyword(s):  
Road Safety ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Safety Programme ◽  
Safety Work ◽  
National Road

scholarly journals Przedsiębiorczość w edukacji dzieci i młodzieży dla świadomego i bezpiecznego uczestnictwa w ruchu drogowym

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 198-216
Author(s):  
Zbigniew Ożdżyński
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Road Safety ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
The Road ◽  
Safety Programme ◽  
Safety Improvement ◽  
National Road

The article presents the results of studies related to children and adolescents’ awareness of the road dangers and their conscious and safe participation in the road traffic. Additionally it indicates stages of education, which should undergo changes resulting in the safety improvement on the Polish roads. The conclusions of the study are compared with the intentions of the National Road Safety Programme Gambit 2005 in the field of education referring to the road safety and the conclusions of the analysis of safety on Polish roads. The article discusses the erroneous actions of adults towards children entailing failures in traffic laws observance by children and adolescents.

scholarly journals The effects of selected factors on regional road fatalities – analysis of the Łódź region

2019 ◽  
Vol 262 ◽  
pp. 05016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Wachnicka ◽  
Marcin Budzyński ◽  
Wojciech Kustra ◽  
Anna Gobis
Keyword(s):  
Road Safety ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Risk Groups ◽  
Road User ◽  
The Road ◽  
Safety Programme ◽  
National Road ◽  
Scientific Tool ◽  
Local Road

Analysis of regional accident records shows that a country’s national road safety programme does not have the same effect in each of its regions. What may be a serious problem in one region may be of marginal significance in another. Polish and international experience shows that main risk groups and types of accidents related to the level of development and quality of the road network differ from region to region. The conclusion is that a centrally run road safety policy does not always produce the expected outcomes. This suggests that more can be achieved with a combination of strategic (national) road safety management and tactical (regional) and operational (local) road safety efforts. Poland’s regional road safety programmes were found to lack an analysis of the effects of selected factors on safety or fatality forecast based on mathematical models. This calls for a scientific tool to support regional road safety management. The article uses the example of the region of Łódź to present the main road safety problems, analyse safety based on risk assessment, present the effects of selected factors on road user safety and forecast fatalities for different scenarios of treatments.

scholarly journals Factors related to the increasing number of seriously injured cyclists and pedestrians in a Swedish urban region 2003–17

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. e158-e164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Astrid Värnild ◽  
Per Tillgren ◽  
Peter Larm
Keyword(s):  
Road Safety ◽  
Urban Region ◽  
Elderly Persons ◽  
Urban Road ◽  
Road Space ◽  
Accident Data ◽  
Serious Injury ◽  
National Road ◽  
Serious Injuries ◽  
Vision Zero

Abstract Background The number of seriously injured unprotected road users has increased during implementation of a road safety policy Vision Zero. The aim of the study is to identify factors associated with the increase in serious injuries among cyclists and pedestrians (even single pedestrian accidents) that occurred in an urban road space in a Swedish region 2003–17. The urban road space includes roads, pavements and tracks for walking and cycling. Methods Data were retrieved from STRADA (Swedish Traffic Accident Data Acquisition) and NVDB (National Road Database). Descriptive statistics and logistic regression with odds ratios for sex, age and part of road space were assessed. Results The number of seriously injured cyclists and pedestrians more than doubled from 2003 to 2017, with the greatest increase for pedestrians. Older age increased the probability of serious injury since 2012 for the group ≥ 80 years and since 2015 for the group 65–79 years. No significant effect of sex. Most injuries occur in areas not transformed by Vision Zero. Conclusions An increasing number of elderly persons in the generation born in the 1940s and increased life expectancy are important factors. There is a need to increase road safety measures that also promote active mobility.

scholarly journals Comparison Analysis between Real Accident Locations and Simulated Risk Areas in An Urban Road Network

Safety ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guido ◽  
Vitale ◽  
Astarita ◽  
Giofrè
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Road Safety ◽  
Microscopic Simulation ◽  
Accident Rate ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Traffic Conflict ◽  
Accident Data ◽  
Risk Areas ◽  
Risk Rate ◽  
Historical Accident

Recently, many researchers have employed a microsimulation technique to study the chain of interactions among vehicles, which generates an accident occurrence in some circumstances. This new approach to studying road safety is named traffic conflict technique. The aim of this paper is to assess how the microscopic simulation is a useful tool to identify potentially unsafe vehicle interactions and how high-risk locations identified by a microsimulation technique are similar to the ones identified by using historical accident data. Results show that high-risk locations identified by the simulation framework are superimposable to those identified by using the historical accident database. In particular, the statistical analysis employed based on Pearson’s correlation demonstrates a significative correspondence between a risk rate defined with simulation and an accident rate determined by the observed accidents dataset.

scholarly journals An examination of the national road-safety programs in the ten world’s leading countries in road safety

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 175-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Gitelman ◽  
Limor Hendel ◽  
Roby Carmel ◽  
Shlomo Bekhor
Keyword(s):  
Road Safety ◽  
Safety Programs ◽  
National Road

scholarly journals Environment perception based on LIDAR sensors for real road applications

Robotica ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. García ◽  
F. Jiménez ◽  
J. E. Naranjo ◽  
J. G. Zato ◽  
F. Aparicio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Road Safety ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Environment Perception

SUMMARYThe recent developments in applications that have been designed to increase road safety require reliable and trustworthy sensors. Keeping this in mind, the most up-to-date research in the field of automotive technologies has shown that LIDARs are a very reliable sensor family. In this paper, a new approach to road obstacle classification is proposed and tested. Two different LIDAR sensors are compared by focusing on their main characteristics with respect to road applications. The viability of these sensors in real applications has been tested, where the results of this analysis are presented.

Rural casualty crashes on the Kings Highway: A new approach for road safety studies

2016 ◽  
Vol 95 ◽  
pp. 8-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sahar Alian ◽  
R.G.V. Baker ◽  
Stephen Wood
Keyword(s):  
Road Safety ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Safety Studies

Intrinsic road safety: A new approach?

1995 ◽  
Vol 19 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 245-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.H.A. Van Uden ◽  
A.H. Heijkamp
Keyword(s):  
Road Safety ◽  
New Approach

scholarly journals Drugged driving in South Africa: An urgent need for review and reform

2019 ◽  
pp. 7-18
Author(s):  
Jade Liebenberg ◽  
Lorraine Du Toit-Prinsloo ◽  
Gert Saayman ◽  
Vanessa Steenkamp
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Road Safety ◽  
Traffic Accident ◽  
Drug Testing ◽  
Drugs Of Abuse ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Driving Under The Influence ◽  
Drugged Driving ◽  
National Road

  Driving under the influence is a major threat to road safety in South Africa. Various psychoactive substances (both licit and illicit) have the potential to adversely affect driving performance and increase the probability of a road traffic accident. While it is common practice in South Africa to test drivers for alcohol levels, testing for additional impairing substances (including drugs of abuse) is rarely performed. In terms of current South African legislation, only driving under the influence of alcohol and a ‘drug having a “narcotic” effect’ is prohibited. This excludes several impairing psychoactive drugs which are not classified as narcotic substances. The aim of this article is to highlight issues and/or limitations surrounding drugged driving and to propose appropriate considerations for revision of the National Road Traffic Act. We also recommend revising existing legislation to include a comprehensive statutory definition and detailed provisions for drug testing to deter impaired driving.

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