INDEX

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
  

Safety performance function: 

• 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. 

Road Marking

• Role of Road markings
• Classification
• Visibility. 

Traffic Signals

•  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

Area Traffic control

• Delineators
• Traffic Impact Attenuators
• Road side rest areas
• Safety Barriers
• Traffic Aid Posts.

UNIT-IV

Traffic management techniques

• 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
• Legislation
• Enforcement
• Education and propaganda
• 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

Important points / Keywords to be remembered