scholarly journals Developing a national road traffic safety education program in Iran

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatemeh Bakhtari Aghdam ◽  
Homayoun Sadeghi-Bazargani ◽  
Saber Azami-Aghdash ◽  
Alireza Esmaeili ◽  
Haneieh Panahi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Safety ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Safety Education ◽  
Road Traffic Safety ◽  
National Road

Development of Road Traffic Safety Education System Based on Virtual Reality Technology

2012 ◽  
Vol 229-231 ◽  
pp. 1710-1714
Author(s):  
Xue Jian Jiao ◽  
Shan Chai
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Traffic Safety ◽  
Education System ◽  
Single Channel ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Dynamics Simulation ◽  
Safety Education ◽  
Projection System ◽  
Driving Experience ◽  
Road Traffic Safety

Road traffic safety is a major security problem faced by our society. It has great significance for the society to give the driver a safety education in the totally immersed virtual reality environment. With the single channel stereo display projection system, we established the road traffic safety education system, and solved some key issues, such as the physical modeling of immersive driving experience, the vehicle dynamics simulation and so on. Practical application shows that the system has achieved the purpose of road traffic safety education.

scholarly journals Road traffic safety analysis on the example of selected national roads in the Lubelskie Voivodeship

2021 ◽  
Vol 201 (3) ◽  
pp. 572-584
Author(s):  
Renata Stefaniak
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Safety ◽  
Road Safety ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Road Accidents ◽  
Improvement Program ◽  
Road Traffic Safety ◽  
The Right ◽  
National Road

The article shows the essence of road safety in the Lubelskie Voivodeship on the example of two longest and most dangerous No. 19 and 74 national roads running through the voivodeship. The article aims to diagnose the current state of road safety in the Lubelskie Voivodeship and identify opportunities for its improvement. The statistical data of the Central Statistical Office in Lublin, annual reports on road accidents of the Police Headquarters in Warsaw, reports of the National Road Safety Council, and documents of the General Directorate for National Roads and Motorways Branch in Lublin were used to analyze the safety. The analysis of the statistical documents allowed the conclusion that ten national roads run through the Lubelskie Voivodeship. Roads No. 9, 17, and 74 are the longest ones. However, on a national scale, roads No. 19 and 74 are of great importance to road safety. It has been observed that the number of road accidents in the Lubelskie Voivodeship is decreasing year by year; thus, the number of accident victims is also falling. The national road No. 19 remains the most dangerous. Passenger car drivers most frequently caused road accidents since they did not adopt the speed to road conditions or obey the right of way. The Provincial Road Safety Improvement Program in Lublin assumed a significant reduction in the number of victims killed and injured on the roads. Unfortunately, after analyzing the statistical data over the years, it can be stated that even though the assumed goal was not achieved, the accident victim rate improved.

scholarly journals Identifying urban features for vulnerable road user safety in Europe

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Klanjčić ◽  
Laetitia Gauvin ◽  
Michele Tizzoni ◽  
Michael Szell
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Safety ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Road User ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Road Traffic Safety ◽  
European Cities ◽  
Vulnerable Road User ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
National Road ◽  
Serious Injuries

One of the targets of the UN Sustainable Development Goals is to substantially reduce the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic collisions. To this aim, European cities adopted various urban mobility policies, which has led to a heterogeneous number of injuries across Europe. Monitoring the discrepancies in injuries and understanding the most efficient policies are keys to achieve the objectives of Vision Zero, a multi-national road traffic safety project that aims at zero fatalities or serious injuries linked to road traffic. Here, we identify urban features that are determinants of vulnerable road user safety through the analysis of inter-mode collision data across European cities. We first build up a data set of urban road crashes and their participants from 24 cities in 5 European countries, using the widely recommended KSI indicator (killed or seriously injured individuals) as a safety performance metric. Modelling the casualty matrices including road infrastructure characteristics and modal share distribution of the different cities, we observe that cities with the highest rates of walking and cycling modal shares are the safest for the most vulnerable users. Instead, a higher presence of low-speed limited roads seems to only significantly reduce the number of injuries of car occupants. Our results suggest that policies aimed at increasing the modal share of walking and cycling are key to improve road safety for all road users.

Safety Enhancement by Automated Driving: What are the Relevant Scenarios?

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 1686-1690
Author(s):  
Niklas Grabbe ◽  
Michael Höcher ◽  
Alexander Thanos ◽  
Klaus Bengler
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Safety ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Test Cases ◽  
Automated Driving ◽  
Road Traffic Safety ◽  
Human Driver ◽  
Driving Task ◽  
Promising Solution ◽  
Vehicle Automation ◽  
Safety Enhancement

Automated driving offers great possibilities in traffic safety advancement. However, evidence of safety cannot be provided by current validation methods. One promising solution to overcome the approval trap (Winner, 2015) could be the scenario-based approach. Unfortunately, this approach still results in a huge number of test cases. One possible way out is to show the current, incorrect path in the argumentation and strategy of vehicle automation, and focus on the systemic mechanisms of road traffic safety. This paper therefore argues the case for defining relevant scenarios and analysing them systemically in order to ultimately reduce the test cases. The relevant scenarios are based on the strengths and weaknesses, in terms of the driving task, for both the human driver and automation. Finally, scenarios as criteria for exclusion are being proposed in order to systemically assess the contribution of the human driver and automation to road safety.

scholarly journals Assessing inequality, irregularity, and severity regarding road traffic safety during COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Lin ◽  
Feng Shi ◽  
Weizi Li
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Traffic Safety ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Human Mobility ◽  
Critical Conditions ◽  
Road Traffic Safety ◽  
Accident Data ◽  
The Impact

AbstractCOVID-19 has affected every sector of our society, among which human mobility is taking a dramatic change due to quarantine and social distancing. We investigate the impact of the pandemic and subsequent mobility changes on road traffic safety. Using traffic accident data from the city of Los Angeles and New York City, we find that the impact is not merely a blunt reduction in traffic and accidents; rather, (1) the proportion of accidents unexpectedly increases for “Hispanic” and “Male” groups; (2) the “hot spots” of accidents have shifted in both time and space and are likely moved from higher-income areas (e.g., Hollywood and Lower Manhattan) to lower-income areas (e.g., southern LA and southern Brooklyn); (3) the severity level of accidents decreases with the number of accidents regardless of transportation modes. Understanding those variations of traffic accidents not only sheds a light on the heterogeneous impact of COVID-19 across demographic and geographic factors, but also helps policymakers and planners design more effective safety policies and interventions during critical conditions such as the pandemic.

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