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.

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

scholarly journals Road traffic safety in Ukraine: state and development prospects

2021 ◽  
pp. 24-28
Author(s):  
Olesia IVANENKO ◽  
Ivan PONOMARENKO
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Safety ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
The State ◽  
Road User ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Road Accidents ◽  
Road Traffic Safety ◽  
Safe Level ◽  
Definition Of

Introduction. The issue of road traffic safety has been studied by many modern scientists. However, despite the research, this issue remains relevant to this day, both theoretically and practically. This is due to the fact that the concept of road traffic safety is not currently enshrined in law, and there is no unanimity among scientists on its content. Moreover, the relevance of the practical component is evidenced by the fact that over the past three years a number of important regulations in the field of road traffic safety and procedures for their implementation have been developed. The purpose of the paper is to determine the state of road traffic safety in Ukraine. In accordance with the goal, the main objectives of this study are to formulate a definition of “traffic”, “road traffic safety”, outlining their elements; determining the state of road traffic safety in Ukraine and further development trends, establishing the main directions of implementation of state policy in the field of road traffic safety. Results. Covering the issue of road safety, it should be noted that the current legislation of Ukraine does not provide a definition of this concept, but in 2016 there was an attempt to legislate both the legal category of “road traffic safety” and a number of closely related to it. Thus, the authors of the draft Law on Road Traffic and Safety defined traffic as “the process of traffic on roads and other places where it is not prohibited by the draft law”, and road traffic safety as “a state of the road system, due to which the appropriate level of protection of road users from road accidents and their negative consequences is determined and achieved”. It should be emphasized that road traffic safety is achieved through the application of appropriate measures of organizational, administrative, socio-economic and technical nature, which are enshrined in regulations and which are aimed at ensuring the proper and safe level road traffic safety for all its participants. It should be noted that neither the Ukrainian legislator nor the state executive bodies reduce the state of danger on the roads of Ukraine, so they are constantly developing appropriate programs and taking measures to increase the level of road traffic safety. Thus, in 2020, a state program was approved, the main goal of which is to reduce the level of accidents on the roads and the severity, first of all, of the socio-economic consequences of road accidents. Conclusion. According to the legislation of Ukraine, road traffic safety should be understood as a set of socio-economic and organizational-technical measures to ensure road traffic safety and road user, prevention of road traffic accidents and elimination or minimization of their negative consequences.

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.

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.

scholarly journals Classification of Russian cities by levels of road traffic safety: specifics of required management decisions

2018 ◽  
Vol 170 ◽  
pp. 05009
Author(s):  
Artur Petrov ◽  
Daria Petrova
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Traffic Safety ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Spatial Differentiation ◽  
Rate Heterogeneity ◽  
Accident Rate ◽  
Road Traffic Safety ◽  
Relative Disadvantage

The article considers the results of research of accident rate heterogeneity in cities-administrative centers of subjects of Russian Federation (2015, 2016). Using methods of ranging, regression analysis and spatial differentiation these cities were classified into 5 classes on the basis of relative disadvantage in road traffic safety sphere. For each group of cities differentiated recommendations on financing regional road traffic safety programs were suggested.

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