Safety ranking of the Lithuanian road network of national significance

Jasiūnienė, Vilma; Čygas, Donatas; Ratkeviciute, Kornelija; Peltola, Harri

doi:10.3846/bjrbe.2012.18

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“…Collisions and crashes at intersections have caused a huge cost to society in terms of death, injury, lost productivity and property damage. Those collisions and crashes at intersections differ from country to country, depending of intersections' types (Jasiūnienė et al 2012).…”

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Comparative analyse of the two new alternative types of roundabouts – turbo and flower roundabout

Tollazzi

Renčelj

2014

The Baltic Journal of Road and Bridge Engineering

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Alternative types of roundabouts are usually more recent and have been implemented only in certain countries. Typically, they differ from "standard" roundabouts in one or more design elements, whilst the purposes of their implementations are also specific. The main reasons for their implementations are particular the disadvantages of "standard" one-or two-lane roundabouts in particular circumstances or changes of "actual circumstances" which in the past has led to roundabout implementations. Today, several different types of roundabouts are well-known ("mini", "double mini", "dumbbell", "with transition central island", "with joint splitter islands", "traffic signal controlled", "assembled roundabouts" …), and it is possible to stipulate that they will be further developed in the future. This paper illustrates two relative new alternative types of roundabouts-"turbo" and "flower" roundabouts and their comparison from design, traffic safety and capacity point of view.

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Comparative analyse of the two new alternative types of roundabouts – turbo and flower roundabout

Tollazzi

Renčelj

2014

The Baltic Journal of Road and Bridge Engineering

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“…In 2011, Lithuania prepared the National Traffic Safety Development Program for 2011-2017. The strategic objective of this program is to improve the traffic safety situation, so that by the number of people killed on the roads per 1 million population Lithuania were between the average of the 10 EU states showing the best results in this field (or no more than 60 people killed/1 million population) [1].…”

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“…The highest accident rate is represented by uncontrolled intersections, also conflicts happen very often and their capacity is low [4]. The research on road network safety levels at intersections showed that the highest average accident rate was measured at four-leg at-grade intersections and the lowest -at grade-separated intersections [1]. But the construction of the latter is quite expensive, thus, there is a need for the solutions of at-grade intersections until it is possible depending on road capacity and safety.…”

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Methodical Guidelines for the Design of Roundabouts in Lithuania

Tumavičė

Kaniušėnienė

Šiukščius

2014

The 9th International Conference "Environmental Engineering 2014"

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During the last decade roundabouts served the purpose to be the one of the safest and to have the highest capacity of all at-grade intersections. Unfortunately, until now Lithuania had no detail design standards adapted specially for roundabouts, moreover, there was no clear vision what construction and design principles should be used for roundabouts. This article presents analysis of roundabout design and construction methods in Lithuania. Methodical Guidelines for the Design of Roundabouts proposes how to classify roundabouts into five different types. Also, it proposes the main principles and guidelines for roundabout design adapted for the use in Lithuania.

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“…The safety performance of existing highways should be increased by targeting investments towards the highest accident concentration sections (Brewer et al, 2001) and to the highway sections with the highest accident reduction potential (Jasiūnienė et al, 2012). In fact crashes are often due to bad decisions by drivers made in environments created by engineers (Dell'Acqua, 2011).…”

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European Speed Environment Model for Highway Design-Consistency

Dell’Acqua

2012

MAS

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The European road network is very large, and much of it is made up of two-lane rural roads. In Italy the road network requires adjustment work to improve mobility safety management. One of the most important tools for this analysis is the operating speed (V85) profile. In many design standards, different formulations are used for estimating V85, obtained on the basis of research carried out at different times and in different contexts. The aim of the research presented in this study is to analyze driver speed behavior on two-lane rural highways. The study was conducted using traffic counters, able to record in both directions and for every passage of a vehicle, its length, instant speed and direction. The survey plan was elaborated to satisfy different research objectives. The readings were taken by keeping every section under observation for 3, 6 or 12 hours. The data were collected on 11 homogeneous sections of highway. The database consisted of free-flow passenger car speeds and various geometric data from 103 sites. Data were collected at sites to both develop and validate equations. The proposed model includes the radius of horizontal curvature and the “Speed Environment”, which is defined as the speed at which users travel in free-flow conditions when they are not constrained by the alignment of the highway

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Safety ranking of the Lithuanian road network of national significance

Cited by 11 publications

References 11 publications

Comparative analyse of the two new alternative types of roundabouts – turbo and flower roundabout

Comparative analyse of the two new alternative types of roundabouts – turbo and flower roundabout

Methodical Guidelines for the Design of Roundabouts in Lithuania

European Speed Environment Model for Highway Design-Consistency

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