Speed Management for Local and Regional Rural Roads

Gaca, Stanisław; Kieć, Mariusz

doi:10.1016/j.trpro.2016.05.388

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“…Many studies have analyzed the spatial pattern of hot spots and associated countermeasures to reduce the dangerousness of these locations, in both the urban and rural contexts. These countermeasures, listed in Table 2, are largely consolidated from well-established road safety plans from more developed countries, in an urban context [24][25][26][27][28] as well as in a rural context [25,26,[29][30][31][32]. For example, urban hot spots are usually tackled by traffic engineering measures in intersections (i.e., clear road signs, signalized control, engineering-based approaches and speed reduction) and stricter speed enforcement.…”

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A Combined Approach to Address Road Traffic Crashes beyond Cities: Hot Zone Identification and Countermeasures in Indonesia

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Addressing fatalities on road is a major concern in most countries in the world. South-East Asian countries are no exception. In Indonesia, three persons die on road every hour. Understanding where and how road traffic crashes happen is imperative before the most efficient countermeasures can be devised and implemented. In this paper, three tools-hot spots, hot zones and hot clusters-are used to identify sections of two main highways in the Province of Aceh that require most urgent action. Many countermeasures have been developed to address the problem of black sites (hot spots). Examples of implementation often come from Australia, Europe or North America. Less research exists on countermeasures in hot zones, even less so in the Global South (less developed countries from Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America). This research applies quantitative spatial analysis that builds on existing works using the hot zone methodology and goes a step further by suggesting relevant countermeasures. More precisely, by taking into consideration the global urban-rural divide, this paper attempts to identify the most dangerous highway sections, in Indonesia, and to suggest appropriate hot zone countermeasures based on the characteristics of these hot zones. The results showed that urban highways, when compared to rural highways, were characterized by higher crash rates and a larger number of hot zones. Formulating hot zone countermeasures in urban environments should therefore consider their associated dangerousness and environmental features. Proposed countermeasures in urban roads include a stricter monitoring of the use of helmet, seat belt and cellphone, and the development of periodic communication and awareness campaigns.

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A Combined Approach to Address Road Traffic Crashes beyond Cities: Hot Zone Identification and Countermeasures in Indonesia

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“…Within 16 years of the analysis, fatalities caused by speeding went down by 54%. In this period, systematic measures were implemented, designed to prevent dangerous speeds (automatic speed camera system CANARD, traffic calming in many cities and the construction of safe roads) [51]. While mistakes have been made (downscaling the speed camera system and higher speed limits on motorways), fatal accidents caused by excessive speeds continue to drop.…”

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Experiences and Challenges in Fatality Reduction on Polish Roads

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According to the UN, road safety is the key to achieving sustainable development goals, yet the complexity of how road accidents happen makes this a difficult challenge leaving many countries struggling with the problem. For years, Poland has infamously been one of the EU’s top countries for road-accident fatality rates. Despite that, it has made significant progress in the last thirty years with a fatality reduction of more than 60%. A number of factors have contributed to this result: improving the socioeconomic situation, improving road safety measures, changing road user behaviour and changing national road safety programmes. This article presents Poland’s approach to road safety and, in particular, Vision Zero, adopted in 2005. Poland’s road safety changed over the years as the country learned from its successes and failures. Tools for forecasting fatalities were developed and used to identify the main factors that have helped to reduce deaths. An assessment was conducted on how Poland could implement Vision Zero until 2050 under different road safety scenarios. It was found that in order to achieve the EU’s goal for 2030, Poland must reduce fatalities to 1200. While it is an ambitious goal, it is also an important step towards zero fatalities in 2050.

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“…Lots of attention is given to an effective speed reduction as 5% reduction in speed leads to 10% reduction in accidents causing injuries, 15% reduction in accidents causing serious injuries and 20% reduction in accidents involving fatalities ( Figure 1). In Poland the consideration of the driver's speed focuses mainly on instantaneous speed investigations conducted on national roads which are characterised by the highest number of deaths and severe injuries [7][8][9]. During the last two decades a number of activities and campaigns towards the improvement of safety conditions on roads in Poland have been undertaken.…”

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Effectiveness of Automatic Section Speed Control System Operating on National Roads in Poland

Ziółkowski

2019

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Driving speed remains within the most important factors in road safety, and speed not only affects the severity of a crash but is also related to the risk of being involved in a crash. Inappropriate speed is responsible for more than a third of all fatal accidents occurring on roads. In Poland the problem of speeding drivers is widely present. Hence, effective speed management and enforcement of speed limits on existing roads plays an important role. Possible solutions for rural roads are very limited and are focused mainly on administrative speed limitations and speed cameras enforcement. However, due to their limited effectiveness new solutions are still being sought. High expectations are associated with the automatic section speed control system that has recently been introduced in Poland. The aim of this paper is to examine the efficiency of the automatic section speed control system on the basis of speed surveys collected on chosen national roads where the system for sectional speed control was first implemented. Conducted comparisons and statistical analyses included driver's average speed, speed percentiles, the number of speeding drivers as well as speed heterogeneity. To evaluate the efficacy of the sectional speed system, speed measurements were also conducted on fourteen, similar in geometry and functional characteristics, reference national roads located in Podlaskie voivodship in Poland without any specific speed enforcement. KEY WORDStraffic management; section speed control; excessive speed; heterogeneity of speed; Change in accident/injury rate [%] Change in speed [%] All accidents Fatalities Light injuries 100.0

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Speed Management for Local and Regional Rural Roads

Cited by 26 publications

References 8 publications

A Combined Approach to Address Road Traffic Crashes beyond Cities: Hot Zone Identification and Countermeasures in Indonesia

A Combined Approach to Address Road Traffic Crashes beyond Cities: Hot Zone Identification and Countermeasures in Indonesia

Experiences and Challenges in Fatality Reduction on Polish Roads

Effectiveness of Automatic Section Speed Control System Operating on National Roads in Poland

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