Safer roads : a guide to road safety engineering

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Safer roads : a guide to road safety engineering

K.W. Ogden

Avebury Technical, c1996

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 465-506) and index

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Description

An international review of road safety engineering. This study illustrates the practices/procedures used in the identification of hazardous sites and the development of road/traffic countermeasures. It identifies the sources of accident problems and factors of human behaviour.

Table of Contents

  • The nature and dimensions of the road safety problem
  • safety management systems
  • human factors in road traffic
  • data needs and limitations
  • hazardous road conditions
  • diagnosis of road accident problems
  • development of countermeasures
  • road design
  • intersections
  • delineation, signing and lighting
  • road maintenance and construction
  • the roadside
  • traffic management
  • vulnerable road users
  • road safety audit
  • road safety project appraisal
  • monitoring and programme evaluation.

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