ROAD SAFETY ENGINEERING
UNIT-I
Road Accidents:
- Causes, scientific investigations and data collection
- Analysis of individual accidents to arrive at real causes
- Statistical methods of analysis of accident data
- Basic concepts of Road accident statistics,
- Bayesian concepts of road accident analysis
- Bayesian Statistics
- The empirical Bayes method Identification of Hazardous road location.
- Application of computer analysis of accident data.
Road Safety Engineering Problems
UNIT-II
Safety in Road Design
- Operating the road network for safety highway operation and counter measures
- Road safety audit
- Principles-procedures and practice
- Code of good practice and checklists
- Vehicle design factors
- Driver characteristics influencing road safety.
UNIT-III
Road Signs and Traffic Signals:
- Classification
- Location of Signs
- Measures of sign effectiveness
- Types of visual perception
- Sign regulations
- Sign visibility
- Sign variables
- Text versus symbols.
- Need
- Signal face
- Illumination and location of Signals
- Factors affecting signal design
- Pedestrians’ safety
- Fixed and vehicle actuated signals
- Concepts of design of traffic signals
- Problem on design of traffic signal
- Design of traffic signal at intersection - Problem
- Solutions to problems on design of traffic signals
UNIT-IV
- Integrated safety improvement and Traffic calming schemes
- Speed and load limit
- Traffic lights
- Safety cameras
- Tests on driver and vehicles
- Pedestrian safety issues
- Parking
- Parking enforcement and its influence on accidents
- Travel demand management
- Methods of traffic management measures
- Restriction of turning movements
- One way streets
- Tidal flow operation methods
- Exclusive bus lanes and closing side streets
- Latest tools and techniques used for traffic management
- Road safety issues and various measures for road safety
- Air quality
- Noise and energy impacts
- Cost of road accidents
UNIT-V
Incident management
- Introduction
- Characteristics of traffic incidents
- Types of incidents
- Impacts
- Incident management process
- Incident traffic management
- Applications of ITS
- Motorist information Systems
- Equipment used for incident management
- Planning effective incident management program
- Best practices in incident management programs
- National importance of survival of transportation systems during and after all natural disasters especially cyclones, earthquakes, floods etc. and man-made disasters like sabotage, terrorism etc
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