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FACTORES HUMANOS ASOCIADOS A LOS ACCIDENTES MORTALES DE MOTOCICLETAS SCOOTER EN ESPAÑA
2017
Resumen Los accidentes de motocicleta son uno de los problemas de seguridad vial más importantes a nivel mundial. Hay una escasez de estudios específicos sobre las características de la accidentalidad de las motocicletas de tipo scooter, motivada por la falta de una definición precisa de este tipo de motocicleta y de la identificación de los distintos tipos de vehículos de dos ruedas en los registros de accidentes. El objetivo de este trabajo es determinar las características de los 293 conductores de motocicletas scooter fallecidos en España durante el periodo 2006-2011. Se realizaron análisis descriptivos y de asociación en función de la naturaleza de las variables. Los resultados de los …
Safety effects on pedestrians at urban roundabouts: an overview
2013
Pedestrians are important users of the transportation system, but most guidelines have given them little importance in the geometric design of roads and intersections. Thus it can be difficult for vehicles and pedestrians to share the road, particularly at intersections where vehicle-pedestrian conflicts can be frequently recurring situations even with low pedestrian volume. In a sustainable safety vision, pedestrians and vehicles are required to safely share the road; thus the need that roads have a recognizable design and predictable traffic situations where users know what they should do and what they can expect from other users, should be even more deeply felt. It is well-known that mod…
Comparison of Road Safety Policy Objectives in Poland and in the European Union
2016
The aim of the chapter is to identify main actions undertaken within the Polish road safety policy and to assess its efficacy based on the system approach, as well as to present recommendations for enhancing road safety in Poland. In the first part of the chapter key objectives of the EU road safety policy are elaborated. Then, the situation in Poland related to the number of road fatalities and to the causes of accidents is described, and policy instruments in Poland are presented. In the last part of the text an attempt is made to evaluate the Polish road safety policy. Besides, recommendations for improving road safety performance in Poland are elaborated on. In conclusion, it is stated …
Cost-benefit analysis of road safety measures
2013
Road accidents represent one of the most serious problems faced by the Ministries of Public Health in the World. In Italy for example, in the year 2007 there were almost 330, 000 injuries and 5, 131 fatalities; 230, 871 crashes in all which resulted in an estimated € 30.4 billion financial loss, corresponding to 2% of GDP. In 1999 the National Road Safety Plan (NRSP), among other things, funded the requalification of several unsafe road infrastructures at higher risk of accidents. Unlike other infrastructure investment plans, NRSP usually requires: i) specific safety analysis of crash history to identify the critical road; ii) proactive action, e.g. RSAs and RSARs; iii) before-after acciden…
Safety diagnostic method in urban circular intersections
2004
The available knowledge of traffic safety at roundabouts is not a complete reference for geometric design; where there are organizational schemes for junctions characterized by a geometric design, quite different driving behaviours are required from those that are observable at roundabouts. This is very frequent in urban areas, where the existing constraints, particularly physical ones, often render it necessary to make “compromise choices” relating to one or more geometric features of the roundabout (central island shape, circulatory roadway width, symmetry and number of the arms, entry width, etc). The objective of this study is to explain the accident phenomenology of this kind of road s…
Bezpieczeństwo komunikacyjne uczniów w drodze do/ze szkoły
2016
Bezpieczeństwo Komunikacyjne to zagadnienie, które dotyczy bezpośrednio wszystkich ludzi: kierowców, pieszych, rowerzystów, motocyklistów. Artykuł ma na celu przedstawienie podstawowych zagadnień dotyczących bezpieczeństwa komunikacyjnego oraz ukazanie poziomu bezpieczeństwa w drodze do szkoły uczniów w mieście Opole oraz poziomu wiedzy uczniów na temat bezpieczeństwa komunikacyjnego. Szczegółowo przeanalizowano i zwrócono uwagę na sposoby pokonywania przez uczniów drogi do/ze szkoły, poczucie bezpieczeństwa uczniów w ich opinii, oraz wiedzę uczniów na temat ruchu drogowego.
Infrastructural and Human Factors Affecting Safety Outcomes of Cyclists
2018
The increasing number of registered road crashes involving cyclists during the last decade, and the high proportion of road crashes resulting in severe injuries and fatalities among cyclists constitutes a global issue for community health, urban development, and sustainability. Nowadays, the incidence of many risk factors for road crashes of cyclists remains largely unexplained. Given the importance of this issue, the present study has been conducted with the aim of determining relationships between infrastructural, human factors and safety outcomes of cyclists. Objectives: This study aimed, first, to examine the relationship between key infrastructural and human factors present in cycling,…
Assessing risk perception over recidivist traffic offenders from a multi-group approach: how gendered could it be?
2022
ABSTRACT Objective: The core aim of this study was to examine the predictive role of demographic, psychosocial and driving features of Spanish drivers on their risk perception over recidivist traffic offenders, focusing on gender as a key differentiating factor. Method: For this cross-sectional study, it was analyzed the data gathered from a nationwide sample of 1,711 licensed drivers from the 17 regions of Spain (49% females, 51% males) with a mean age of 40.07 years, responding to a telephone-based interview on road safety issues. Demographic, driving-related and psychosocial factors were comparatively analyzed through robust tests and a bias-corrected MGSEM (Multi-Group Structural Equati…
Traffic Safety Basic Facts 2012 : Cyclists
2013
The CARE database brings together the disaggregate details of road accidents and casualties across Europe, by combining the national accident databases that are maintained by all EU member states. Access to the CARE database is restricted, however, so it is important that a comprehensive range of publications based on these data be accessible to the general public. This process was begun in the SafetyNet project that was carried out between 2004 and 2008, and the concept of the Basic Fact Sheet (BFS) Basic Fact Sheets and Annual Statistical Report (ASR) was developed. By 2008, twelve Fact Sheets were being prepared annually by researchers at five institutes. This Fact Sheet presents an over…
Traffic Safety Basic Facts 2012 : Roads outisde urban areas
2013
The CARE database brings together the disaggregate details of road accidents and casualties across Europe, by combining the national accident databases that are maintained by all EU member states. Access to the CARE database is restricted, however, so it is important that a comprehensive range of publications based on these data be accessible to the general public. This process was begun in the SafetyNet project that was carried out between 2004 and 2008, and the concept of the Basic Fact Sheet (BFS) Basic Fact Sheets and Annual Statistical Report (ASR) was developed. By 2008, twelve Fact Sheets were being prepared annually by researchers at five institutes. This Fact Sheet presents an over…