Effectiveness of the Black Spot Programs in Western Australia

Meuleners, Lynn; Hendrie, Delia; Lee, Andy H.; Legge, Matthew

doi:10.1016/j.aap.2008.01.011

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“…These network features also seem to have a significant impact on road safety outcomes, as reported in several detailed studies, including Feber, Feldmeier and Crocker (2003) and Meuleners et al (2008).…”

Section: Infrastructure Characteristics and Traffic Conditionsmentioning

confidence: 89%

The road against fatalities: Infrastructure spending vs. regulation??

Albalate

Fernández

Yarygina

2013

Accident Analysis & Prevention

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractThe road safety literature is typified by a high degree of compartmentalization between studies that focus on infrastructure and traffic conditions and those devoted to the evaluation of public policies and regulations. As a result, few studies adopt a unified empirical framework in their attempts at evaluating the road safety performance of public interventions, thus limiting our understanding of successful strategies in this regard. This paper considers both types of determinants in an analysis of a European country that has enjoyed considerable success in reducing road fatalities. After constructing a panel data set with road safety outcomes for all Spanish provinces between 1990 and 2009, we evaluate the role of the technical characteristics of infrastructure and recent infrastructure spending together with the main regulatory changes introduced. Our results show the importance of considering both types of determinants in a unified framework. Moreover, we highlight the importance of spending in maintenance given its effectiveness in reducing fatalities and casualties in the current economic context of austerity that is having such a marked impact on investment efforts in Spain.

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Section: Infrastructure Characteristics and Traffic Conditionsmentioning

confidence: 89%

The road against fatalities: Infrastructure spending vs. regulation??

Albalate

Fernández

Yarygina

2013

Accident Analysis & Prevention

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“…Several researchers have focused on analyzing the relationship between accidents and a variety of different features of the infrastructure such as lane widths, number of traffic lanes, median shoulder, pavement, road curvature, intersections and signalization (Abdel-Aty and Radwan, 2000; Noland and Oh, 2004;Meuleners et al, 2008). In general terms, results conclude that the road's characteristics have a statistically significant impact on safety (Albalate et al, 2013;Wang et al, 2013).…”

Section: Datamentioning

confidence: 61%

Public Private Partnership Management Effects on Road Safety Outcomes

Albalate

Bel-Piñana

2017

SSRN Journal

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Public Private Partnerships (PPP) have become common in providing high-quality infrastructure in many countries worldwide. One of the main reasons for PPP agreements is to improve efficiency and quality in the delivery of public services, as well as to boost investments for expensive projects.Despite PPPs having been particularly widespread in the case of the construction and rehabilitation of high-capacity road infrastructure, their impact in terms of road safety outcomes is still unexplored. This paper studies the effects of PPPs on road safety outcomes by taking advantage of the variety of management models provided in the Spanish highway network. Results based on a panel-data fixed-effects method show that the most relevant aspect influencing road safety outcomes is the quality of design of the road. However, we find strong evidence suggesting that privately operated highways perform better in terms of road safety outcomes than publicly operated highways, for roads with a similar quality of design.

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“…Safety performance studies have been developed using different approaches: average from historical crash data, expert judgments made by experienced engineers, before-and-after studies, black spot studies, and statistical models (Harwood et al 2000;Isebrands and Hillary 2009;Meuleners et al 2008;Sawalha 2006).…”

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Safety performance appraisal at roundabouts: Case study of Salalah City in Oman

Farag

Hashim

2016

Journal of Transportation Safety & Security

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Although, roundabouts have proved significant in improving safety, capacity, and environmental performance, they have shown an increasing crash rate in Oman over the years. This paper aims to evaluate the safety performance of the roundabouts in Oman through the development of crash prediction models to examine the relationship between the geometric, traffic flow variables and crash frequency and severity. These models can determine which variables are the best indicators for safety performance.Generalized Linear Modelling (GLM) technique with Poisson or Negative Binomial Regression (NBR) was carried out to develop these models. Two types of models were developed separately; the flow-based models including only exposure functions, and the full models containing both exposure functions and other significant geometry and traffic variables. The result shows that the 85 th percentile speed, number of lanes at specific approach, entry angle, and circulating width were the most significant variables.It was found that reducing the 85 th percentile speed reduces the total and injuries crashes, however Downloaded by [Athabasca University] at 09:40 21 June 2016 ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT 2 increasing the number of lanes in each approach and adding right-turn bypass lane may be the most effective methods to reduce the rear-end accidents.

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Effectiveness of the Black Spot Programs in Western Australia

Cited by 32 publications

References 4 publications

The road against fatalities: Infrastructure spending vs. regulation??

The road against fatalities: Infrastructure spending vs. regulation??

Public Private Partnership Management Effects on Road Safety Outcomes

Safety performance appraisal at roundabouts: Case study of Salalah City in Oman

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