Road Safety in Tunnels

2000 ◽  
Vol 1740 (1) ◽  
pp. 170-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerstin Lemke
Keyword(s):  
Cross Sections ◽  
Road Safety ◽  
Road Network ◽  
Safety Analysis ◽  
Personal Injury ◽  
Material Damage ◽  
The Road ◽  
Accident Data ◽  
Accident Rates ◽  
Open Road

Roads in tunnels differ from comparable open-road sections in many respects. For most drivers a tunnel is an unusual driving environment in the road network that might even cause stress. A safety analysis was carried out to estimate average accident rates and accident cost rates for different cross sections of tunnels on German roads. The analysis is based on all the available accident data for German freeway and highway tunnels reported to police. Personal injury accidents and material-damage-only accidents were analyzed separately. The findings indicate that accident rates are lower for roads in tunnels. Moreover, accidents with severe personal injury and material damage are less frequent on roads in tunnels. However, the fear of a maximum credible accident still remains.

scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF ROAD SAFETY IN THE BALURAN STREET KM SBY 230 - 231 WITH ROAD SAFETY AUDIT

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (02) ◽  
pp. 179
Author(s):  
Nur Azizah ◽  
Akhmad Hasanuddin ◽  
Sri Sukmawati
Keyword(s):  
Road Safety ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Critical Length ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
Safety Analysis ◽  
Material Loss ◽  
The Road ◽  
Spot Area ◽  
Accident Data ◽  
Road Safety Audit

The Baluran Street Sumberejo Village Banyuputih Districts Situbondo Districts KM SBY 230-231 is categorized as block spot area with 15 accident to 6 dead, 6 people seriously injured (LB) and minor injuries (LR ) 21 people as well as the material loss of Rp113.250.000,00 during the year 2015-2017. The purpose of this study is determined to the factor accident and provided recommendation for handling road safety in the case of traffic accidents. The road safety analysis data used are road safety audit data and accident data released by Unit Laka Lantas Polres Situbondo in 2017. The result of road safety analysis indicates that several road facilities are categorized as “dangerous” and/or “very dangerous” which shall be improved to reduce traffic accident potential. The improvement may includes (1) the geometric aspect of the road, including stop visibility, sight distance to overtake, bend radius, vertical ramp, critical length, vertical bend length, stop visibility at vertical arch, different shoulder elevation road to pavement edge; (2) pavement aspect, including hole and crack; and (3) the complementary aspects of the road including the speed limit at the corner, climbing sign, sign of descendant, anticipatory prohibition sign, bend sign, double bend sign, and road marking. Jalan Raya Baluran Desa Sumberejo Kecamatan Banyuputih Kabupaten Situbondo KM SBY 230-231 merupakan lokasi rawan kecelakaan yang mengalami 15 kejadian kecelakaan dengan jumlah korban meninggal dunia (MD) sebanyak 6 orang, korban luka berat (LB) 6 orang dan korban luka ringan (LR) 21 orang serta kerugian materi sebesar Rp113.250.000,00 selama tahun 2015-2017. Tujuan penelitian ini yaitu untuk menentukan faktor penyebab kecelakaan dan memberikan rekomendasi penanganan keselamatan jalan pada kasus kecelakaan lalu lintas. Data analisis keselamatan jalan yang digunakan adalah data hasil audit keselamatan jalan dan data kecelakaan yang dikeluarkan oleh Unit Laka Lantas Polres Situbondo tahun 2017. Hasil analisis keselamatan jalan menunjukkan bahwa beberapa bagian fasilitas jalan berada dalam kategori “bahaya” dan atau “sangat berbahaya”, yang harus segera diperbaiki untuk memperkecil potensi terjadinya kecelakaan, yaitu: (1) aspek geometrik jalan yang meliputi jarak pandang henti, jarak pandang menyiap, radius tikungan, landai vertikal, panjang kritis, panjang lengkung vertikal, jarak pandang henti pada lengkung vertikal, beda elevasi bahu jalan terhadap tepi perkerasan; (2) aspek perkerasan jalan yang meliputi kerusakan berupa lubang dan retak; dan (3) aspek pelengkap jalan yang meliputi rambu batas kecepatan di tikungan, rambu tanjakan, rambu turunan, rambu larangan mendahului, rambu tikungan, rambu tikungan ganda, dan marka jalan.

scholarly journals Development of Driving Simulation Scenarios Based on Building Information Modeling (BIM) for Road Safety Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 2039
Author(s):  
Juan F. Dols ◽  
Jaime Molina ◽  
F. Javier Camacho-Torregrosa ◽  
David Llopis-Castelló ◽  
Alfredo García
Keyword(s):  
Road Safety ◽  
Data Exchange ◽  
Building Information Modeling ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
Safety Analysis ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
Driving Simulators ◽  
The Road ◽  
Road Design ◽  
Building Information

The analysis of road safety is critical in road design. Complying to guidelines is not enough to ensure the highest safety levels, so many of them encourage designers to virtually recreate and test their roads, benefitting from the evolution of driving simulators in recent years. However, an accurate recreation of the road and its environment represents a real bottleneck in the process. A very important limitation lies in the diversity of input data, from different sources and requiring specific adaptations for every single simulator. This paper aims at showing a framework for recreating faster virtual scenarios by using an Industry Foundation Classes (IFC)-based file. This methodology was compared to two other conventional methods for developing driving scenarios. The main outcome of this study has demonstrated that with a data exchange file in IFC format, virtual scenarios can be faster designed to carry out safety audits with driving simulators. As a result, the editing, programming, and processing times were substantially reduced using the proposed IFC exchange file format through a BIM (Building Information Modeling) model. This methodology facilitates cost-savings, execution, and optimization resources in road safety analysis.

scholarly journals ROAD SAFETY CAMPAIGNS TO REDUCE TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS FOR YOUNG ROAD USERS

ICCD ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 601-606
Author(s):  
Widodo Budi Dermawan ◽  
Dewi Nusraningrum
Keyword(s):  
School Environment ◽  
Road Safety ◽  
Traffic Accident ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
School Administrators ◽  
Road User ◽  
The Road ◽  
Road Users ◽  
Accident Data

Every year we lose many young road users in road traffic accidents. Based on traffic accident data issued by the Indonesian National Police in 2017, the number of casualties was highest in the age group 15-19, with 3,496 minor injuries, 400 seriously injured and 535 deaths. This condition is very alarming considering that student as the nation's next generation lose their future due to the accidents. This figure does not include other traffic violations, not having a driver license, not wearing a helmet, driving opposite the direction, those given ticket and verbal reprimand. To reduce traffic accident for young road user, road safety campaigns were organized in many schools in Jakarta. This activity aims to socialize the road safety program to increase road safety awareness among young road users/students including the dissemination of Law No. 22 of 2009 concerning Road Traffic and Transportation. Another purpose of this program is to accompany school administrators to set up a School Safe Zone (ZoSS), a location on particular roads in the school environment that are time-based speed zone to set the speed of the vehicle. The purpose of this paper is to promote the road safety campaigns strategies by considering various campaign tools.

scholarly journals The Development of a Concept Model of All-Weather Safe Winter Tires

2019 ◽  
pp. 3-11
Author(s):  
I.V. Balabin ◽  
O.I. Balabin ◽  
I.S. Chabunin
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Road Safety ◽  
Road Network ◽  
Winter Temperature ◽  
The Road ◽  
Concept Model ◽  
Traffic Conditions ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
The Russian Federation

The article presents issues related to improving safety and efficiency of operation of mobile machines in the constantly changing, winter temperature and traffic conditions. The authors develop a conceptual model of winter all-weather tires able to adapt to various road conditions such as when the road is covered with a layer of ice or compacted snow, or when the road is free from snow and ice. The use of such winter all weather tires will improve the road safety by contributing to increasing the life of tires and preserving the road network. The proposed model has no foreign analogues and is protected by a patent of the Russian Federation.

scholarly journals The safe road transport system approach

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-74
Author(s):  
Hans-Joachim Vollpracht
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Road Safety ◽  
System Approach ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Road Infrastructure ◽  
The Road ◽  
Traffic Calming ◽  
Accident Data ◽  
And Function

Abstract More than 1,24 million people die each year on the worlds roads and between 20 to 50 million suffer from nonfatal injuries. The UN Road Safety Collaboration Meetings under the leadership of WHO developed the Programme for the Decade of Actions for road safety taking nations into the responsibility of improving their accident figures by the five pillars of a national Road Safety Policy, safer Roads, safer Vehicles, safer Road Users and Post Crash Care. It is this Safe System Approach that takes into consideration the land use, infrastructure and transport planning, road user’s abilities and limitations and the close cooperation of all governmental and none governmental stakeholders involved. Following the European Transport Safety Council's (ETSC) 8th Road Safety Performance Index Report on Ranking EU Progress on Road Safety; June 2014 Romania has made progress during the last 10 year but had still the highest fatality rate of 93 fatalities per 1 million inhabitants in Europe. [1] The contribution will present the main activities of the fife pillars with a focus on PIARC's Road Infrastructure Management tools to improve safety and function of the road infrastructure based on the experiences with the land use problems in Asian, African and European countries. A GPS based accident data system will help researchers and practitioners to improve their countries road safety. The report will show the important steps for safer roads which had been developed in Romania and how actions of short and long term measures on all five pillars have reduced the number of traffic victims remarkable in Eastern Germany after reunification and in addition how the hierarchy of motorways, 2+1 express roads, the rural roads and traffic calming in built up areas, have improved the economic development of cities and villages in a safe way.

scholarly journals Specifics of road safety inspection in tunnels

2021 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 33-38
Author(s):  
Emir Smailovic ◽  
Boris Antić ◽  
Dalibor Pešić ◽  
Slaviš Beronja
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Road Safety ◽  
Traffic Accident ◽  
Road Network ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Safety Standards ◽  
The Road ◽  
Road Users ◽  
Road Tunnels

Tunnels are underground passages, placed horizontally, which serve to lead the road through them. In order to fulfill its purpose in road traffic, the tunnel must fit into the traffic infrastructure and as such not create an obstacle in movement and enable the movement of vehicles from entrance to exit without danger, but with increased restriction of freedom of lateral evacuation. Tunnels are among some of the most risky parts of the road network, primarily due to space constraints, where there is a possibility of a traffic accident. Managing the risks associated with the passage of road traffic, and in particular the safety of traffic in tunnels, is a serious problem in many countries. With the growing number of road users, it is necessary to adopt stricter standards regarding road tunnels. In addition to meeting these safety standards, factors such as operational requirements, economic efficiency, energy efficiency and state-of-the-art technology should also be taken into account when planning and equipping tunnels.

scholarly journals Road Safety Assessment Considering the Expected Fatal Accident Density

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-48
Author(s):  
Vilma Jasiūnienė ◽  
Rasa Vaiškūnaitė
Keyword(s):  
Road Safety ◽  
Safety Assessment ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Road Accident ◽  
Fatal Accident ◽  
Road Infrastructure ◽  
The Road ◽  
Management Procedures ◽  
Accident Data ◽  
Wide Road

Network-wide road safety assessment throughout the whole network is one of the four road infrastructure safety management procedures regulated by Directive 2019/1936/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2019 Аmending Directive 2008/96/EC on Road Infrastructure Safety Management and one of the methods for determining the direction of investment in road safety. So far, the implementation of the procedure has been lightly regulated and adapted using various road safety indicators. The paper describes the evaluation of road accident data that is one of the criteria for conducting a network-wide road safety assessment. Taking into consideration that networkwide road safety assessment is a proactive road safety activity, the paper proposes to conduct road safety assessment considering the expected fatal accident density. Such assessment makes it possible to assess the severity of accidents, and the use of the predicted road accident data on calculating the introduced road accident rate contributing to the prevention of accidents. The paper describes both the empirical Bayes method for predicting road accidents and the application of one of the road safety indicators – the expected fatal accident density – to determine five road safety categories across the road network. The paper demonstrates the application of the proposals submitted to Lithuanian highways using road accident and traffic data for the period 2014–2018.

scholarly journals Kinerja Peiayanan Jaringan Transportasi Jalan Nasional Trans Maluku Pulau Ambon

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 118
Author(s):  
Anotnius Sihaloho ◽  
M Yamin Jinca
Keyword(s):  
Road Safety ◽  
Road Network ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Transportation Network ◽  
The Road ◽  
Road Users ◽  
Island Group ◽  
Quantitative Descriptive ◽  
National Road ◽  
Descriptive Method

Trans Maluku is a national transportation network that links 12 island groups in Maluku Province. Island Group XII is Ambon Island that became PKN of Maluku province. This study aimed to find out ltaw tlte performance of the national road network in Island Group XII of Ambon Island and formulate development strategies. Analysis using quantitative descriptive method and SWOT analysis. 71ze results of the national road network Passo-Galala, Lahthalat- Batu Gantong and Waihaong-Batu Merah indicates that: indicators of accessibility, capacity and integrated quite effectively. Indicators are classified as not effective is Road Safety. The use of tire road network of relatively efficient aspects of tire VCR. Construction of support facilities necessary for the security of road users and an increase in financing the road network.

scholarly journals Methodology of application of programmed training in the system of professional training of drivers

2020 ◽  
Vol 329 ◽  
pp. 01003
Author(s):  
Evgeny Ageev ◽  
Evgeny Vinogradov ◽  
Alexandr Novikov ◽  
Alexandr Novikov
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Road Safety ◽  
Road Network ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
The Road ◽  
Personal Qualities

This article discusses an improved system for training candidates for drivers of vehicles, identifies factors that affect road safety in the conditions of the road network. The author’s version of the development of a program of programmed training in the system of training candidates for drivers, which is focused on the ability to manage the process of mastering theoretical and practical material. The presented method makes it possible to increase the reliability of vehicle drivers, taking into account individual personal qualities, when performing exercises of road training, the experience of using programmed training in preparation for driving in real time is reflected.

scholarly journals Road Safety – Is It a Local Government Priority? (What Does the Experience Suggest?)

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-53
Author(s):  
David McTiernan
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Road Safety ◽  
Road Network ◽  
Current Status ◽  
The Road ◽  
Road Users ◽  
Local Roads ◽  
National Road ◽  
Serious Injuries ◽  
Local Road

As the road authority for the unclassified (i.e. local) roads in their local government area, councils have the legislated responsibility to manage their road infrastructure; this fundamentally includes the safety of road users on their networks. Almost 70% of the 392 fatalities on NSW roads in 2017 occurred on country roads (Transport for NSW, 2018). The contribution of the local road network to road trauma across Australasia is significant with over half (52%) of all fatal and serious injuries recorded on roads that are the sole responsibility of local government (McTiernan et. al., 2016). Governments at all levels - Local, State and Federal – can no longer ignore the contribution of local roads to the national tragedy and trauma occurring each year. Without a concerted effort by all tiers of government to address road safety performance on the vast local road network, Australia will not achieve the 30% reduction target in fatal and serious injuries as set out in the National Road Safety Plan. Unfortunately, the current status for managing safety on local roads sees a myriad of systemic hurdles and failures that ultimately result in local government not making road safety a genuine priority. But what is required to change this situation? Two case studies are presented to assist a discussion about some of the systemic failures that contribute to local councils not taking, or not being able to take, action to make road safety a genuine priority.

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