Abstract
Abstract
Accidents involving roadsides are typically extremely "unforgiving". Even though the roadside design can affect only
marginally the actual number of accidents occurring on a road, the severity of crashes can be considerably reduced if roadsides
are designed to be more "forgiving".
Within the IRDES project a practical and uniform guideline that allows the road designer to improve the forgivingness of the
roadside and a practical tool for assessing the effectiveness of applying a given roadside treatment have been produced for the
following set of roadside features: barrier terminals; shoulder rumble strips; forgiving support structures for road equipment;
shoulder width.
© 2012 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Selection and/or peer-review
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Improving roadside design to forgive human errors |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Publication status | Published - 2012 |
| Event | Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences - Duration: 1 Oct 2021 → … |
Conference
| Conference | Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences |
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| Period | 1/10/21 → … |
Research Field
- Former Research Field - Mobility Systems
Keywords
- Keywords: Road safety; run-off road accidents; forgiving roadsides: barrier terminals; rumble strips; forgiving support structures
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