Road design in terms of sustainable safety | Faculty of Technical Sciences

Subject: Road design in terms of sustainable safety (17.DSSK6S)

Type of studies	Title
Doctoral Academic Studies	Civil Engineering (Year: 1, Semester: Winter)
Doctoral Academic Studies	Traffic Engineering (Year: 2, Semester: Winter)

General information:

Category	Scientific-professional
Scientific or art field	Traffic Planning, Regulation and Safety
ECTS	10

• To provide candidates with an understanding of the system driver - vehicle - environment, human psycho-physical properties, the choice of driving speed, orientation and understanding, understanding of the causes of traffic accidents. • To provide candidates with an understanding of the sustainable safe road design • To demonstrate how sustainable safe road design should be undertaken • To provide candidates with the tools to undertake sustainable safe road design • To provide an examples of previous SSRD undertaken in other countries

Understanding the system driver - vehicle - environment, human psycho-physical properties, the choice of driving speed, orientation and understanding, understanding of the causes of traffic accidents. Understanding the concept of sustainable safe road design.

MODULE 1: HUMAN BEHAVIOUR 1. Human – environment – vehicle system 2. Incident and Accident 3. Accident reasons 4. Random nature of accidents 5. Accident analysis MODULE 2: SUSTAINABLE SAFE ROAD DESIGN 1 SUSTAINABLE SAFE ROAD DESIGN: THEORY • Safety concept • Safety principles • Road functions • Recognizable road categories • Road categories • Network classification • Capacity 2 SUSTAINABLE SAFE ROAD DESIGN: CROSS SECTION • Cross section • Intermediate cross sections • Design of roadside • Restraint systems 3 SUSTAINABLE SAFE ROAD DESIGN: JUNCTIONS • General requirements • Roundabout • Priority junctions • Priority junctions with traffic lights 4 SUSTAINABLE SAFE ROAD DESIGN: ALIGNMENT • Introduction • Sight distance • Horizontal alignment • Transition curves • Super elevation • Vertical alignment • Composed alignment 5 SUSTAINABLE SAFE ROAD DESIGN: LINEAR VILLAGES • Traffic calming • Problems encountered linear villages • Problem analysis • Goals • Solutions 6 SUSTAINABLE SAFE ROAD DESIGN: PEDESTRIAN CROSSING • The problem • Causes / origins • Objectives • Solutions • Give way crossings • Split level crossings 7 SUSTAINABLE SAFE ROAD DESIGN: CYCLISTS • General requirements • Categorisation • Horizontal alignment • Cross sections • Vertical alignment • Crossings • Parking places • Pavement

At the end of each module: At the end of each module, student completes a short test, which covers the teaching material of that module. At the end of teamwork: At the end of teamwork, team completed checklists and prepare a final report. Oral presentations supportet by Power point and case studies of good and bad practice (in teams). Passing the course means that the following conditions are met: - knowledge is demonstrated on ongoing verifications - knowledge is demonstrated at the final hearing.

Authors	Title	Year	Language
Nielsen, Mathiasen	Road Safety Audit in Practise	2003	English
Proctor et al.	Institute of Highways and Transportation – Road Safety Audit	2008	English
EU	Directive 2008/96/EC – Road Infrastructure Safety Management (2008)	2008	English
Matena et al.	RIPCORD-ISEREST Road Safety Audit – Best Practise Guidelines, Qualification for Auditors and Programming – RI-WP4-D4	2008	English
Kononov, Allery	Explicit Consideration of Safety in Transportation Planning and Project Scoping (2005)	2005	English
Kononov et al.	Safety Conscious Planning – Corridor Level Application and a Review of the Case History – Kononov et al (2005)	2005	English
ETSC	Road Safety Audit and Impact Assessment	1997	English
R.Elvik et al.	Accident Prediction Models and Road Safety Impact Assessments: Results of the Pilot Studies – RI-SWOV-WP2-R4-Results (2007)	2007	English
Reurings et al.	Accident Prediction Models and Road Safety Impact Assessments – a state of the art study – RI-SWOV-WP2-R1-State_of_the_Art (2008)	2008	English
Falco, Proctor, Gonzales	Euro-Audits	2007	English