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 Safety of Vulnerable Road Users written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Traffic Safety written by George Yannis and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transport systems are facing an impossible dilemma: satisfy an increasing demand for mobility of people and goods, while decreasing their fossil-energy requirements and preserving the environment. Additionally, transport has an opportunity to evolve in a changing world, with new services, technologies but also new requirements (fast delivery, reliability, improved accessibility). The subject of traffic is organized into two separate but complementary volumes: Volume 3 on Traffic Management and Volume 4 on Traffic Safety. Traffic Safety, Volume 4 of the Research for Innovative Transports Set, presents a collection of updated papers from the TRA 2014 Conference, highlighting the diversity of research in this field. Theoretical chapters and practical case studies address topics such as road safety management and policies, accident analysis and modeling, vulnerable road users' safety, road infrastructure safety, ITS and railway safety.
Download or read book World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention written by Marjorie Peden and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day thousands of people are killed and injured on our roads. Millions of people each year will spend long weeks in the hospital after severe crashes and many will never be able to live, work or play as they used to do. Current efforts to address road safety are minimal in comparison to this growing human suffering. This report presents a comprehensive overview of what is known about the magnitude, risk factors and impact of road traffic injuries, and about ways to prevent and lessen the impact of road crashes. Over 100 experts, from all continents and different sectors -- including transport, engineering, health, police, education and civil society -- have worked to produce the report. Charts and tables.
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 Traffic Safety and Human Behavior written by David Shinar and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-22 with total page 1262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive 2nd edition covers the key issues that relate human behavior to traffic safety. In particular it covers the increasing roles that pedestrians and cyclists have in the traffic system; the role of infotainment in driver distraction; and the increasing role of driver assistance systems in changing the driver-vehicle interaction.
Download or read book Road Vehicle Automation 7 written by Gereon Meyer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the seventh volume of a sub-series on Road Vehicle Automation, published as part of the Lecture Notes in Mobility. Written by researchers, engineers and analysts from around the globe, the contributions are based on oral and poster presentations from the Automated Vehicles Symposium (AVS) 2019, held on July 15–18, 2019, in Orlando, Florida, USA. The book explores public sector activities, human factors aspects, vehicle systems and other related technological developments, as well as transportation infrastructure planning, which are expect to foster and support road vehicle automation.
Download or read book Proactive Evaluation of Safety for Vulnerable Road Users at Signalized Intersections written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continued emphasis on active transportation has led to a proliferation of vulnerable road users (VRUs) such as bicyclists and pedestrians at intersections. Intersections are critical locations as many crashes occur due to mixed traffic flow and various conflicting patterns between road users. Intersection safety has primarily relied on historical crash data. However, due to several limitations including unpredictability and irregularity of occurrence of crashes in real environment, quantitative and qualitative determination of crashes may not be accurate. This study explores alternative measures to the traditional safety analysis known as surrogate safety measures (SSMs). SSMs such as Time to Collision (TTC), Post Encroachment Time (PET) and a variant of TTC, Relative Time to Collision (RTTC) were used to evaluate safety at ten signalized intersections in the city of San Diego. The analysis was conducted in two main parts: proactive safety evaluation for VRUs at signalized intersections by comparison of SSMs and predicting critical bicycle-vehicle conflicts at signalized intersections. In part one, frequency of each SSMs was estimated to identify critical intersections for VRUs and then a comparative study of each SSMs were conducted. It was found that RTTC alone was insufficient to accurately identify critical conflicts. Furthermore, safety evaluation results showed that a single SSM was not reliable but a combination of different SSMs was necessary to ensure the reliability of evaluations. In part two, logistic regression model was developed in R to predict critical conflicts based on PET measure. Bicycle-vehicle kinematics data were monitored for certain period before predicting critical conflicts. Several scenarios were analyzed considering different combinations of PET threshold value and monitoring period, and it was found that a scenario with PET threshold value of 3s and monitoring period of 2s led to the best model based on its statistical performance. Of the many input variables investigated, velocity of the conflicting objects and minimum relative approach velocity were found to be statistically more significant. The model was tested under two cases; sensitivity maximization and maximum overall accuracy, and it was found that sensitivity maximization was more suitable as it ensured accurate prediction of critical conflicts.
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 Pedestrian Facilities Users Guide Providing Safety and Mobility written by Charles V. Zegeer and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide is intended to provide information on how to identify safety and mobility needs for pedestrians with the roadway right-of-way. Useful for engineers, planners, safety professionals and decision-makers, the guide covers such topics as: the Walking Environment including sidewalks, curb ramps, crosswalks, roadway lighting and pedestrian over and under passes; Roadway Design including bicycle lanes, roadway narrowing, reducing the number of lanes, one-way/two-way streets, right-turn slip lanes and raised medians; Intersections with roundabouts, T-intersections and median barriers; and Traffic calming designs.
Download or read book Global Status Report on Road Safety 2015 written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Global status report on road safety 2015, reflecting information from 180 countries, indicates that worldwide the total number of road traffic deaths has plateaued at 1.25 million per year, with the highest road traffic fatality rates in low-income countries. In the last three years, 17 countries have aligned at least one of their laws with best practice on seat-belts, drink-driving, speed, motorcycle helmets or child restraints. While there has been progress towards improving road safety legislation and in making vehicles safer, the report shows that the pace of change is too slow. Urgent action is needed to achieve the ambitious target for road safety reflected in the newly adopted 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: halving the global number of deaths and injuries from road traffic crashes by 2020. Made possible through funding from Bloomberg Philanthropies, this report is the third in the series, and provides a snapshot of the road safety situation globally, highlighting the gaps and the measures needed to best drive progress."--Publisher's description.
Download or read book Vulnerable Road User Safety Message Minimum Performance Requirements written by V2X Vehicular Applications Technical Committee and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document provides recommendations of safety message minimum performance requirements between a Vulnerable Road User (VRU) and a vehicle. It addresses the transmission of Personal Safety Messages (PSM) from road user devices carried by pedestrians, bicycle riders and public safety personnel, to provide driver and vehicle system awareness and potentially offer safety alerts to VRUs.This document includes the recommendation of standards profiles, function descriptions and minimum performance requirements for transmitting the SAE J2735-defined PSM [1] over a Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) Wireless communication link as defined in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1609 and the IEEE 802.11 Standards [[1]]-[5]]. While other wireless media may be used to deliver the PSM, DSRC is explicitly assumed in this document, because of anticipated regulatory ruling in the United States and other countries requiring vehicles to be equipped with a DSRC-based safety system using V2V communication.This recommended practice is limited at this time to communications between the VRU device carried by walking pedestrians and DSRC equipped vehicles. Later versions may incorporate improvements based on field experience with this recommended practice and may include other provisions for communicating with other DSRC equipped devices, and with other VRUs. According to NHTSA, in 2012 traffic crashes in the United States claimed 4743 pedestrian fatalities and resulted in 76000 pedestrian injuries. NHTSA reports that 726 pedalcyclists were killed and 49000 were injured in traffic crashes. In addition, in 2012,106 road workers were killed by traffic crashes in the United States. Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) safety systems using Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) have been researched and have been undergoing standardization for more than a decade. In the near future deployments are likely. Leveraging these developments and prospective deployment, research has been conducted using DSRC portable devices to extend the potential safety benefit to Vulnerable Road Users (VRU) such as pedestrians, bicyclists and road workers. In order to achieve interoperability between vehicle-based and portable DSRC safety devices for experimental use, there is a need to establish a VRU safety message minimum performance recommendations to support VRU safety applications.
Download or read book Safety in Road Traffic for Vulnerable Users written by and published by Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development. This book was released on 2000-04-06 with total page 122 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 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 Modeling an Infrastructure Safety Rating for Vulnerable Road Users in Developing Countries written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modeling an infrastructure safety rating for vulnerable road users in developing countries.
Download or read book VIDEO ANALYSIS AND MAPPING OF VULNERABLE ROAD USERS SAFETY written by and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Global Status Report on Road Safety written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approximately 1.3 million people die each year on the world's roads, and between 20 and 50 million sustain non-fatal injuries. The Global status report on road safety is the first broad assessment of the road safety situation in 178 countries, using data drawn from a standardized survey. The results show that road traffic injuries remain an important public health problem, particularly for low-income and middle-income countries. Pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists make up almost half of those killed on the roads, highlighting the need for these road users to be given more attention in road safety programmes. The results suggest that in many countries road safety laws need to be made more comprehensive while enforcement should be strengthened. The Global status report on road safety results clearly show that significantly more action is needed to make the world's roads safer. [Ed.]
