Safer Roads by design
The design of safe roads will form a large part of any road safety strategy. This stream will investigate what advances might be expected in the design of new roads and the software for modeling, simulation and prediction of safe road design. Implementation of safe road design across Europe will need to overcome elements which impede it, such as standardization.
Addressing the improvement of existing roads is far more problematic. Common sense improvements can always be made to re-engineer accident blackspots, to create roadside clear zones, to increase lane widths, to protect cyclists and pedestrians and to improving maintenance. Even simple tasks such as cutting back foliage where it impedes sightlines can assist. What factors impede such common-sense improvements and would an increase in the real and enforceable legal accountability for bad road design and maintenance be a catalyst for change in this area?
- Factors in safe road design
- Software for modeling, simulation and prediction of safe road design
- Creating common geometric standards in road design
- Driver perceptions of road design
- Common sense improvements; lane widths and roadside clear zones
