Knowledge Sharing Between Designers and Accidentologists for the Development of Road Safety Systems

Abstract

Road Safety System development is complex task, which requires the collaboration between designers and accidentologists. However, designers and accidentologists do not share the same viewpoints, neither the same models to analyze an accident, nor the same technical language. This makes their communication a complex task in a design process. Accident Scenario is recognized as a powerful communication tool between designers and accidentologists. Nevertheless, an accident scenario has to be presented in a way that both designers and accidentologists can understand and use. To address this issue, we use the systemic approach (a complex system modeling approach) to develop a new methodology allowing constructing multi-view accident scenarios.

Assessment of the Influence of Lagos Bus Rapid Transit Scheme (BRT-Lite) on Road Traffic Crashes (RTC) on Lagos Mainland-Island Corridor

“…They provide a practical guidance to the understanding of RTC. The accident as a complex system theory offered a paradigm shift from this body of earlier theories/models in the analysis of RTC [22,23]. The theory opined that a complete scientific explanation for accidents is not possible [22].…”