Road Safety Barriers, the Need and Influence on Road Traffic Accidents

Butāns, Ž; Gross, Kārlis Agris; Gridnevs, A; Karzubova, E

doi:10.1088/1757-899x/96/1/012063

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“…One way to improve road safety is to use road restraint systems. Guardrails do not only reduce the number of road traffic accidents, but also reduce their severity [8]. Considerable attention is paid to the choice of guardrails for the safe operation of roads, bridge structures and the safety of road users: drivers and passengers of motor vehicles, non-motorized and horse-drawn vehicles, pedestrians, livestock and wild cattle.…”

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Reducing the severity of a traffic accident

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Improving the system of preventive measures aimed at reducing the severity of road accidents is an urgent task. Mortality on roads is constantly increasing and it is necessary to ensure an integrated approach to creating safe road conditions. The purpose of this study is to analyze the promising designs of guardrails designed to prevent uncontrolled exit of vehicles from the roadway and the development of crash cushions. Guardrails should not only be safe for road users, but should also ensure their safety, as well as preserve the elements after crashing it. Conducted analytical studies have shown that to reduce the mechanical damage to vehicles and reduce the severity of injuries to the driver and passengers, it is necessary to develop guardrails that allows capturing shock energy at the moment of contact between the car and the guardrails. The considered design of the crash cushion provides a damping effect when the car crashes the guardrails and at the same time limit the ability to move its elements relative to the original position. This is achieved by using several materials with different strength characteristics in the design of the guardrails, which contributes to its gradual destruction in several stages and smooth energy dissipation.

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“…Similarly, road safety barriers not only serve as a barrier to road accidents but also greatly help in lowering the severity of accidents (Butans et al 2015). Often, it is a priority concern in terms of public health, which may result due to traffic accident injuries and road crashes, which are the major causes of loss of life every year.…”

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Geohazard vulnerability and condition assessment of the Asian highway AH-48 in Bhutan

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Chettri

Aryal³

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Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk

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Transport networks are frequently exposed to geohazards, and losses can be observed frequently by notable disaster incidents such as landslides, earthquakes, and floods. Although losses due to natural disasters are frequently reported, limited attention is paid to assess the condition of strategic road networks in the Himalayas. Thus, to fulfill this gap, this study performs condition assessment of Asian Highway AH-48 in Bhutan and develops a system to rate the performance level of road assets. The assessment is conducted along a 157.6 km stretch of AH-48. The sum of findings highlights that about 55% of the road assets along the AH-48 are highly vulnerable to geohazards. Drains are observed to be the most vulnerable, with 52% drains lying below the standard rating among the considered assets followed by retaining walls and pavement. Landslide vulnerability function for highways that are situated in mountain regions is developed using the newly proposed landslide intensity scale. The sum of findings highlights that the Himalayan roads will be affected mostly by landslides and the drainage system is the most affected road asset showing the least serviceability among the common road assets.

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“…A failure to effectively control the occurrences of these accidents may affect the overall decision-making taking place in local governments and relevant management authorities over the short term, thereby producing a negative impact on the development of regional road traffic. To address the issue, we recommend that protection fences be erected for different types of road sections to raise the level of road traffic safety, on the one hand [48], and warning signs should also be put up around areas entailing frequent occurrences of accidents, on the other hand. Improvements in road traffic can only be achieved by ensuring the conscientious development of road traffic safety.…”

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The Effects of Macroeconomic Factors on Road Traffic Safety: A Study Based on the ARDL-ECM Model

Liu

Zhou

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Sustainability

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This paper attempts to examine whether socioeconomic volatility produces differentiated effects on road traffic accident indicators. Adopting the Autoregressive distributed lag error-correction model (ARDL-ECM), this paper explores the long-term equilibrium and short-term interactions between five common economic indicators, namely, average salaries (AS), employment (EM), unemployment (UE), total mileage of highway (TMH), and private vehicle ownership (PVO), as well as road traffic-related indicators including the number of road traffic accidents (RTA), injuries (IN), fatalities (FA), and direct economic losses (DEL), using data of road traffic accidents spanning from 1999 to 2018 in China. The study found that all economic indicators except average salaries showed a long-term equilibrium with road traffic accident indicators. The Granger causality test showed that, over the short term, an increase in employment could lead to an increase in injuries, and an increase in private vehicle ownership could cause a rise in fatalities. This study demonstrates that the volatility in economic indicators indeed produces differentiated effects on road traffic accident indicators, providing a theoretical basis for improving road safety performance and formulating relevant policies.

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Road Safety Barriers, the Need and Influence on Road Traffic Accidents

Cited by 7 publications

References 18 publications

Reducing the severity of a traffic accident

Reducing the severity of a traffic accident

Geohazard vulnerability and condition assessment of the Asian highway AH-48 in Bhutan

The Effects of Macroeconomic Factors on Road Traffic Safety: A Study Based on the ARDL-ECM Model

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