scholarly journals Comments and Suggestions for Improvement of Mobility and Road Safety in the City of Cáceres

2016 ◽  
Vol 161 ◽  
pp. 1385-1390
Author(s):  
Montaña Jiménez-Espada ◽  
Rafael González-Escobar
Keyword(s):  
Road Safety ◽  
The City

scholarly journals Safety and reliability of the personal bus carriages in integrated municipal system of traffic and public transport management - analysis of literature

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (12) ◽  
pp. 246-251
Author(s):  
Paweł Woś ◽  
Jacek Michalski
Keyword(s):  
Public Transport ◽  
Road Safety ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Road Accidents ◽  
Safety And Reliability ◽  
Key Indicators ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City ◽  
The Eu

The article analyzes the city's logistics development strategies and its public transport, especially bus traffic. Statistical analysis of all road transport in the European Union (EU) has been carried out. The most important reasons for the tragic road accidents in Poland have been mixed up. Key elements of active safety and passive safety of buses and road safety were analyzed. Characterized key indicators of road safety in the EU and the probability of bus incidents. The impact on the ecology of the city of road transport was analyzed in terms of the significance of exhaust emissions of various bus designs and emissions of other pollutants.

scholarly journals Improvement of the traffic safety system

2021 ◽  
Vol 334 ◽  
pp. 01015
Author(s):  
Ksenia Shubenkova ◽  
Aleksey Boyko ◽  
Gulnara Yakupova ◽  
Kirill Magdin
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Safety ◽  
Road Safety ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Initial Information ◽  
The Road ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
The City ◽  
Haddon Matrix ◽  
Transport Management

Increase of the road safety is the main goal in the sphere of transport management. Authors state that the decision-making process should be based on the analysis of statistical data on the violations, traffic reasons of accidents and problem areas. Official statistics of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate is used as an initial information. As a method to determine factors influencing the traffic safety, the so-called Haddon matrix was used. Efficiency of the proposed recommendations is analyzed from the viewpoint of their role in the process of ensuring safety and sustainability of the city transport system.

scholarly journals Does changing to brighter road lighting improve road safety? Multilevel longitudinal analysis of road traffic collision frequency during the relighting of a UK city

2020 ◽  
Vol 74 (5) ◽  
pp. 467-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Marchant ◽  
James David Hale ◽  
Jon Paul Sadler
Keyword(s):  
Road Safety ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Multilevel Modelling ◽  
Personal Injury ◽  
Light Emitting ◽  
Road Lighting ◽  
Road Traffic Collision ◽  
White Light Emitting Diodes ◽  
The City

BackgroundA step change in the night environment is taking place, with the large-scale installation of bright, broad-spectrum road lighting such as white light-emitting diodes (LEDs). One justification for this is a reduction in road traffic collisions (RTCs). This study aimed to estimate the effect of new lighting on personal injury RTCs within a large UK city.MethodsWe analysed a 9-year time series of weekly RTC personal injury counts in 132 areas of the city using multilevel modelling. The RTC rate over a full 24-hour period was the primary outcome; darkness and daylight RTC rates were secondary. The background change in RTC rate was separated from the change associated with the number of newly installed bright lamps by including a polynomial underlying time trend for the logarithm of the mean number of collisions per week for each area. The study was based on a rigorous, predesigned and archived protocol.ResultsWithin-area coefficients for the broad lighting effect were positive; as the number of bright lamps in an area increased, so did the RTC rate. The estimate for the increase in the within-area 24-hour RTC rate is 11% (95% CI 2% to 20%). The estimate of darkness-only RTCs is 16% (95% CI 2% to 32%). If the effect of lighting on darkness RTC rate is adjusted by that for daylight, one obtains 4% (95% CI −12% to +23%).ConclusionNo evidence was found for bright lamps leading to an improvement in road safety in any of the analyses. For this city, introducing brighter road lighting may have compromised safety rather than reducing harm.

scholarly journals Elementos clave para la introducción de la perspectiva de género en las infraestructuras ciclistas

2020 ◽  
pp. 87-105
Author(s):  
Anna Obach Lapieza ◽  
María Ramos Sanz
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Geographic Information System ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Road Safety ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
Participatory Approach ◽  
Gender Mainstreaming ◽  
Gis Analysis ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The City

Gender mainstreaming generated a wide diversity of innovative measures and interventions in new areas not explored until the moment. This is the case of mobility policies, linked to the sustainable urban design and the measures for the environment’s improvement. The literature review and the analysis of the cities’ experiences, allow us to establish some criteria to audit the level of inclusivity of transport infrastructures. In the case of cycling infrastructures, the following criteria have to be taken into account: security, ensuring road safety elements and adequate lighting; conciliation, connecting areas of the city linked to child care, elderly care, daily shopping and personal dealings, through Geographic Information System (GIS) analysis; apply an inclusive and participatory approach, from the comprehension that there is a diverse citizenship with multiple needs and that these have to be taken into account during the design of these policies; and the visibility of cyclist women, as a tool of empowerment and promotion of the use of the bicycle..

scholarly journals Intelligent Transport System in Chile

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Figueroa ◽  
Raúl Carrasco ◽  
Diego Fuentealba ◽  
Eduardo Viera ◽  
Carolina Lagos
Keyword(s):  
Control Systems ◽  
Road Safety ◽  
Intelligent Transport System ◽  
Intelligent Transport ◽  
The Road ◽  
Control Signals ◽  
Advanced Technologies ◽  
Sophisticated Equipment ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City

Today, transit control systems go beyond simple controllers located at the intersections of our streets, involving large companies in the field, which with the implementation and use of sophisticated equipment encompass endless new and advanced technologies that manage to give control to the massive automotive park, thus ensuring fluidity and road safety. Many of these systems are used in the big world capitals, which is why the model used in Santiago, Chile is a system applied and brought directly by the SIEMENS Company of England (specifically the system used in the City of London). It is capable of transmitting the different control signals in a similar and digital way from the different interconnected devices in and out of the road infrastructure.

scholarly journals Improving road safety in small towns based on a systematic approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 341 ◽  
pp. 00028
Author(s):  
Irina Makarova ◽  
Gulnara Yakupova ◽  
Eduard Mukhametdinov
Keyword(s):  
Road Safety ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Road Accidents ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Road ◽  
Preliminary Identification ◽  
Priority Task ◽  
The City ◽  
Haddon Matrix

Currently improving road safety is the priority task in the field of transport management. In our opinion, making management decisions to reduce the road accidents number and injuries rate should be based on a systematic approach to identifying the accidents’ causes and severity. This can be achieved using, among other things, the analysis of statistical data on violations and accidents in dynamics. A model so-called the Haddon Matrix was used as a method of preliminary identification of influencing factors and possible measures for their elimination. The statistical analysis results are presented a particular settlement. It was revealed that the city specifics, namely the residents’ number, motorization rate and the road network and infrastructure characteristics, are reflected in the factors affecting the level of accidents rate and, as a consequence, on the measures necessary to reduce it.

Road Safety Benefits of Liquid Anti-Icing Strategies and Agents: Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada

2000 ◽  
Vol 1700 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Gilfillan
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Road Safety ◽  
Motor Vehicle ◽  
Percent Reduction ◽  
Arterial Streets ◽  
Vehicle Accidents ◽  
Weather Information ◽  
Second Year ◽  
The City ◽  
Snow And Ice

The Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) formed a partnership with the city of Kamloops in September 1996 to undertake a 2-year project to test the effectiveness of liquid anti-icers in preventing motor vehicle accidents compared with traditional deicing techniques. ICBC provided $131,000 in financing to Kamloops over the 2 years. Costs included the conversion of city trucks for liquid dispensing, purchasing of liquid magnesium chloride (Freezgard GSL), and updated road weather information systems. G. D. Hamilton and Associates, an engineering and consulting firm in Vancouver, British Columbia, evaluated the safety benefits achieved during the 2 years. The results of the analysis show up to a 74 percent reduction in overall slush, snow, and ice collisions and associated insurance claims. In the previous 3 years, traditional deicing methods were used. The study area for 1996–1997 consisted of 46 km of arterial streets and 38 km of highways within the city of Kamloops. In the second year, 1997–1998, 148 km of arterial and collector roads were studied. However, the anti-icing agent was not applied to the highways in the second year, and the analysis further showed an increase of 84 percent in the overall slush, snow, and ice collisions and resulting claims. The ICBC Research Department evaluated accident claims reported to the Kamloops Claims Office for winter 1997–1998. The results of the analysis show a 6 percent reduction in overall claims on relevant snow days for an estimated minimum savings of $281,868.00 to ICBC for that year. A similar study was completed in 1998–1999 and showed an 8 percent reduction in overall claims on relevant snow days. For the 3-year program, 285 fewer claims were filed, an average of 95 fewer claims per year.

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