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Publications Routes/Roads Road safety

This page lists Routes/Roads articles of PIARC in the field of road safety. These publications are classified chronologically.

  • Raised Safety Platforms Evaluation: A Case Study of a Successful Methodology and Analysis Process

    Intersections are widely known to pose increased risk for road users due to the concentration of conflict points and potential for collisions at non-Safe System speeds. Raised safety platforms (RSPs) have been acknowledged as an effective treatment in reducing vehicle speeds through urban signalised intersections and are also emerging as promising treatments in certain rural applications. Speed results forthcoming from the before-and- after evaluation of six treated and five control intersections [...]

  • Safer Car Drivers and Safer Roads Through a Data and Risk-Based Approach to Road Safety

    In 2016 ANWB (Royal Dutch Touring Club) introduced the Drive Safe ‘pay how you drive’ car insurance. Our goals: offer a car insurance that is much better aligned with the actual risk of the insured driver and improve driving behaviour, which results in less accidents. In addition, supporting road authorities by providing driving behaviour data to increase road safety has been our goal from the start. In 2020 ANWB performed a pilot project with the municipality of Rotterdam. We improved the accident [...]

  • Network-Wide Road Safety Assessment in Germany - A Way Towards the Consideration of Proactive Indicators

    Germany is currently using a crash-based procedure for network-wide road safety assessment. This reactive approach is described in the guideline «Recommendations for the Network Safety Management - ESN» from 2003. With the update of the EU-Directive on road infrastructure safety management (2019/1936) the German Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMDV) asked the Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt) to develop a new approach that additionally includes proactive indicators as well as considers [...]

  • TS3 - Safety and Sustainability - Safety of the Road System in Romania

    Responsibility for the organisation of road safety in Romania lies with the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure through the subordinate unit, National Company for Roads Infrastructure Administration (NCRIA SA).

  • PIARC Prize Road Safety - Road Management System for Adverse Weather Conditions: Fog and Wind

    The section of the A-8 Cantabrian motorway (hereinafter A-8) near Alto del Fiouco, between km 545+500 and 549+500, is prone to specific weather conditions involving periods of dense fog combined with strong winds. These make driving difficult and sometimes lead to the section’s closure with vehicles diverted to the N-634 as the minimum safety conditions for operation cannot be guaranteed.