Download or read book Safety of Vulnerable Road Users Especially in Urban Areas written by Conference Road Safety in Europe and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Safety in Road Traffic for Vulnerable Users written by European Conference of Ministers of Transport and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2000-04-25 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication takes stock of the different approaches developed in ECMT countries regarding road safety for vulnerable users (cyclists, pedestrians and users of two-wheeled motorised vehicles) and provides examples of "good practice".
Download or read book Proceedings of the Conference Road Safety in Europe written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book ITF Research Reports Pedestrian Safety Urban Space and Health written by International Transport Forum and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-13 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents decision-makers with hard evidence on the important place of walking in transport policies and provide guidelines for developing a safe environment conducive to walking.
Download or read book Town and Infrastructure Planning for Safety and Urban Quality written by Michèle Pezzagno and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-07-16 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, citizens advocate greater environmental sustainability, better services and the improvement of urban quality by promoting safer mobility, especially for the most vulnerable road users. Addressing these issues, Town and Infrastructure Planning for Safety and Urban Quality contains papers presented at the XXIII International Conference “Living and Walking in Cities” (Brescia, Italy, 15-16 June 2017). The contributions discuss town planning issues, look at best practices and research findings across the broad spectrum of urban and transport planning, with particular attention to the safety of pedestrians in the city. The main topics of the book are: - Urban regeneration. A focus on walkability (vulnerable road users; boosting and planning soft mobility) - Road safety and urban planning - vulnerable road users: planning for safety (integrated land use and transport planning; methodological approaches and case studies; integrated tools for town and transport planning; shaping public spaces and walkability; transport solutions for tourism) - Innovative and traditional solutions for Italian cities - Extra-European approaches to town and infrastructure planning - Different perspectives in road safety: prevention, infrastructure, sharing - Advances in road safety Town and Infrastructure Planning for Safety and Urban Quality is a powerful plea for a multi-disciplinary and comprehensive approach to urban mobility and planning, and will be of interest to academics, consultants and practitioners interested in these areas.
Download or read book A Surrogate Video based Safety Approach for Vulnerable Road Users in the Latin American Context written by Mohamed Elagaty and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Walking and powered two-wheelers (PTWs) play a fundamental role in the urban mobility of many Latin American (LA) cities. Despite their importance, the road safety of these transportation modes, referred to as vulnerable road users, is still a major concern. In the Americas, pedestrians and PTWs represent almost half of the road fatalities as they account for 22% and 20% of the fatalities respectively. Moreover, the percentage of PTWs users in traffic fatalities has been rapidly increasing in Latin American countries - for instance, in Bogota, this increased from 18% in 2013 to 28% in 2017. To deal with the road safety problem, many developed countries have established programs and methodologies for the countermeasure implementation (e.g. “vision zero”). However, such programs are often absent in LA countries. Among many other factors, this is attributed to the lack of economic resources, safety-related data and tools for safety diagnosis and evaluation. Road crash data frequently does not exist or lacks quality. Crash data often suffers from inconsistencies, misclassification, inaccurate geographical locations and inaccurate identification of crash contributory factors. In addition, it can take years to gather sufficient information for diagnosis and countermeasure evaluation, making it difficult to determine failure mechanisms that lead to crashes and contributing risk factors. In this context, there is a need for data and methodologies for safety analysis and countermeasure evaluation that do not rely on crashes. To address the issues with observed crash data, alternative approaches have emerged in the last few years. This includes the surrogate-road-safety approach which includes conflict techniques or measures of proximity and speed measures derived from video trajectory data. This alternative approach is a low cost and time efficient way to get data for safety diagnosis and evaluation of countermeasures. Despite the recent developments in surrogate safety measures and tools, very few studies exist in the literature regarding the investigation of vulnerable road users (VRUs) road safety in developing countries using alternative surrogate safety methods. Very little is documented about the contributing factors related to dangerous vehicle-VRUs interactions and the low-cost road-design treatments that can help reduce VRUs injuries in LA context. As walking and PTWs are essential modes of transportation in LA countries, PTW face a great risk of injury and are involved in a disproportionate number of vehicle collisions in urban areas. The general objective of this thesis is to introduce the use of surrogate measures of safety and methodologies for VRUs in the context of LA using video analysis techniques. More specifically, the first part of this research has two objectives. First, this thesis proposes and implements a proactive surrogate safety methodology using video trajectory data in the context of developing countries to identify risk-contributing factors to vehicle-pedestrian interactions at distinct types of junctions and to evaluate the effectiveness of temporary low-cost countermeasures using Cochabamba and Bogota as case studies. In the second half, extensive video trajectory data was obtained, automatically processed and used to analyze the effect of speed, conflicts and driver behavior, including maneuvering and traffic violations, on PTWs safety and to identify the factors contributing to PTWs risk in the LA context. Hundreds of hours of video data were automatically processed using a specialized computer vision software to generate speed and road-user trajectory data to investigate the risk factors"--
Download or read book ITF Research Reports Safer City Streets Global Benchmarking for Urban Road Safety written by International Transport Forum and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document aims to support cities in setting road safety targets and to monitor progress in improving urban road safety. Pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists account for nearly 80% of urban traffic fatalities. Cities should thus intensify efforts to improve the safety of vulnerable road users. This document presents traffic safety indicators for different road user groups collected in 31 cities to facilitate the evaluation, monitoring and benchmarking of road safety outcomes. It places a particular attention on measuring the risk of fatality per unit distance travelled.
Download or read book A Safe Systems Approach to Vulnerable Road User Safety Issues in Ghana written by William Agyemang and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approximately, 90% of global road traffic deaths occur in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), and vulnerable road users (VRUs) constitute 54%, even though these countries have about 60% of the world s vehicle population. VRUs are particularly prone to injuries and fatalities because they are not protected by any external vehicular body and their vulnerability is higher in mixed traffic conditions. There have been efforts by many countries across the globe to reduce road traffic deaths and injuries, but progress varies significantly between different regions and countries. In Ghana, VRUs account for a high proportion of crashes, with pedestrians and motorcyclists making up about 60% of total crashes every year. Motorcycle-related road safety has become topical due to the recent rapid rise in commercial motorcycle activities attributed to the problem of urban traffic congestion and the general lack of reliable and affordable public transport in rural areas. Additionally, uncontrolled interaction between human and high-speed vehicular activities in and around settlement areas throughout Ghana has resulted in numerous pedestrian deaths and injuries. The phenomenon has been attributed to the land-use and right-of-way planning practices as well as lack of safe crossing facilities for VRUs, comprising pedestrians, bicyclists, and motorcyclists (both two- and three-wheelers). This dissertation is the result of three distinct, but interrelated research efforts addressing VRU safety issues in Ghana. Ghana, like many other countries in sub-Sahara Africa (SSA), is a rapidly developing nation with a rising middle-income population that is driving the urbanization and motorization processes. Nonetheless, a vast majority of the population rely on walking and motorcycles for their daily travel needs. Pedestrians and motorcyclists, both drivers and pillions, make up a significant proportion of VRU fatalities in the country. This dissertation seeks to throw more light on the VRU safety concerns in the country by a) understanding how local transport professionals perceive pedestrian and motorcycle safety issues and the adoption of the Safe Systems approach as a countermeasure tool to address them, and b) conducting data-driven analyses to identify factors contributing to these crashes so that potential countermeasures can be developed based on local conditions and input from local road safety professionals. The dissertation consists of three major areas related to VRU safety in the country. The first part of the study assessed opinions of local transport professionals on the complex safety issues relating to VRUs using the Safe Systems approach to explore how local context could guide the implementation of countermeasures. The Safe Systems approach takes a holistic view of road safety, and this framework is based on the basic premise that humans are prone to errors, mistakes, and mishaps and that as a result are vulnerable to crashes and must therefore be protected systemically. The Safe Systems approach addresses: behavioral issues that may result in crashes (speeding, driving under the influence, aggressive or distracted driving, etc.) under its safer people pillar; issues related to vehicle design and condition under safer vehicles; emphasis on infrastructure designed and constructed to prevent or reduce the severity of crashes through the safer roads pillar; and finally the promulgation of policies that promote safer speeds, especially where vehicular traffic is mixed with VRUs. The study used a Multi-Criteria Decision-Making tool, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), to develop a framework based on knowledge and opinions gleaned from a survey of local road safety professionals to prioritize countermeasures for VRUs (i.e., pedestrians and motorcyclists) using a Safe Systems approach. This initial work provided a reference frame for two subsequent data-driven analyses of motorcycle and pedestrian crashes throughout the country. The motorcycle crash study emphasized the differences among crashes that occur in rural versus urban areas. The pedestrian study focused explicitly on crashes that occurred on inter-urban highways in Ghana. It is anticipated that the findings of the dissertation research will provide a basis for the development of targeted and appropriate countermeasures to reduce the number of VRU deaths and injuries in Ghana. The recommendation for a localized Safe Systems approach and a data-driven strategy to address VRU safety issues is expected to result in improved overall road safety in the country, and other countries with similar characteristics in the region. The proposed Safe Systems framework developed, and its results can be used by transport professionals to prioritize localized efforts to improve the safety of VRUs.
Download or read book Transport Planning and Traffic Safety written by Geetam Tiwari and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recognition of the importance of road safety as a major health issue, the World Health Organization has declared 2011-2021 the Decade of Safety Action. Several countries in Europe, North America, and Asia have been successful in reducing fatalities and injuries due to road traffic crashes. However, many low-income countries continue to experience high rates of traffic fatalities and injuries. Transport Planning and Traffic Safety: Making Cities, Roads, and Vehicles Safer offers a source book for road safety training courses as well as an introductory textbook for graduate-level courses on road safety taught in engineering institutes. It brings together the international experiences and lessons learned from countries which have been successful in reducing traffic crashes and their applicability in low-income countries. The content is based on lectures delivered during an international course on transportation planning and traffic safety, sponsored annually by the Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme (TRIPP) at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. The book is interdisciplinary and aimed at professionals—traffic and road engineers, vehicle designers, law enforcers, and transport planners. The authors examine trends in performance of OECD countries and highlight the public health and systems approach of traffic safety with the vulnerable road user in focus. Topics include land use (transportation planning, mobility, and safety), safety education and legislation, accident analysis, road safety research, human tolerance to injury, vehicle design, safety in construction zones, safety in urban areas, traffic calming, public transportation, safety laws and policies, and pre-hospital care of the injured.
Download or read book Pedestrians Urban Spaces and Health written by Maurizio Tira and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, citizens advocate greater environmental sustainability, better services and the improvement of urban quality by promoting safer mobility and health. Addressing these issues, Pedestrians, Urban spaces and Health contains the papers presented at the XXIV International Conference "Living and Walking in Cities" (Brescia, Italy, 12-13 September 2019). The contributions discuss town planning issues, look at best practices and research findings across the broad spectrum of urban and transport planning, with particular attention to the safety of pedestrians in the city. The main topics of the book are: Walking experiences Urban spaces and Redevelopment Healthy cities (as Urban resilience and for Weakest users) Pedestrians, Urban spaces and Health is a powerful plea for a multi-disciplinary and comprehensive approach to urban mobility and planning, and will be of interest to academics, consultants and practitioners interested in these areas.
Download or read book City level monitoring guidance for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases and injuries written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2023-12-07 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The City-level monitoring guidance for prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases and injuries enables cities to monitor their progress in the prevention and control of NCDs and injuries by outlining key policy interventions to tackle NCDs and injuries at the city level, and providing a monitoring framework, assessment methods and instrument, as well as a compendium of indicators
Download or read book Driving to Safety written by Nidhi Kalra and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Urban Road Safety and Vulnerable Road Users written by Dirk Engels and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Safe and Sustainable Transport A Matter of Quality Assurance written by European Conference of Ministers of Transport and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2003-03-11 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proceedings of a conference on road safety.
Download or read book Improving Safety of Vulnerable Road Users written by Daniel Wade Carruth and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2009, there were over 114,000 fatalities and injuries in the U.S. among vulnerable road users (VRUs; pedestrians and pedal cyclists; NHTSA, 2010). 4,092 pedestrians were killed in pedestrian-vehicle crashes. Pedestrian risk at intermodal interchanges such as bus terminals may be due to factors such as the greatly increased number of pedestrians, the increased likelihood of poor pedestrian behavior, and the lack of separation between pedestrians and vehicles (Clifton & Kreamer-Fults, 2007; Zegeer & Bushell, 2012). The current study investigates the effectiveness of structural and in-vehicle interventions for modifying driver behavior as drivers approach, pass through, and depart from an urban bus terminal. The impact of facility structural elements (pedestrian crossing signs, marked crosswalks, and sidewalks) and an in-vehicle pedestrian warning system was evaluated using the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems driving simulator. 37 participants completed 186 drives in the driving simulator. Driver speed and lane position were evaluated. An in-vehicle alarm indicating "high pedestrian areas" led to reduced driver speed but drivers shifted closer to the shoulder (and pedestrians). Marked crosswalks had no observed effect on driver speed or vehicle controls but also led to drivers positioning themselves closer to the shoulder. Drivers exhibited risk compensation behaviors by driving faster and closer to shoulders when sidewalks were present. Pedestrian crossing signals led to reduced driver speed.
Download or read book Enhancing Urban Safety and Security written by Un-Habitat and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enhancing Urban Safety and Security addresses three major threats to the safety and security of cities: crime and violence; insecurity of tenure and forced evictions; and natural and human-made disasters. It analyses worldwide trends with respect to each of these threats, paying particular attention to their underlying causes and impacts, as well as to the good policies and best practices that have been adopted at the city, national and international levels in order to address these threats. The report adopts a human security perspective, concerned with the safety and security of people rather than of states, and highlights issues that can be addressed through appropriate urban policy, planning, design and governance.
Download or read book Safer Roads written by Tasmania. Department of Infrastructure, Energy, and Resources and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Safer Roads: Vulnerable Road User Program has been developed to improve the overall safety of vulnerable road users by minimising the opportunities for conflict between them and motor vehicles. Funding has been allocated from the Road Safety Levy to implement initiatives aimed at reducing serious casualty crashes involving vulnerable road users. A total of 500,000 [dollars] per annum has been allocated to the Program. The Program addresses areas (including both urban and non-urban locations) where there is current or potential risk of crashes occurring as a result of conflict between motor vehicles and vulnerable road users. Submissions will be assessed against selection criteria to ascertain the validity of the project and the benefits in relation to cost."--Introduction.
