Tool to Manage Road Safety Deficiencies and Risk of Highway Crashes
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- 作者：Griselda Ló ; pez ; Leticia Baena ; Laura Garach ; Juan de Oñ ; a
- 关键词：Traffic crashes ; road safety inspections ; safety management tool
- 刊名：Transportation Research Procedia
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：18
- 期：Complete
- 页码：272-280
- 全文大小：983 K
- 卷排序：18
文摘
In order to facilitate the management of the results obtained in the project “Analysis of the relationship between Road Safety Deficiencies, crashes and hazardous sections” financed by Public Works Agency of the Regional Government of Andalusia (AOPJA) and led by the research group TRYSE from University of Granada, a safety management tool has been developed. This application allows safety managers to consult some factors affecting crashes on two-lane rural highways.The main aim of that project was to analyze the influence of some road deficiencies on crashes and hazardous sections in the Complementary Road Network of Andalusia. These deficiencies were defined in a checklist and were identified by a road inspection. Decision Trees (DTs), that are a data mining technique that allows the extraction of Decision Rules (DRs), were used. DRs revealed the relationship between road deficiencies and crashes.The application allows two different analyses. A specific analysis of the Complementary Road Network of Andalusia, in which, particular safety problems can be identified, and the location of roads with those problems can be obtained. A more general analysis in which some characteristics related to road safety can be selected in order to know the combination of factors contributing to traffic crashes. Safety problems are based on data from Complementary Road Network of Andalusia but results can be extrapolated to other rural highways in Spain.