Identification of Hazardous Locations in Regional Road Network – Comparison of Reactive and Proactive Approaches

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2016.05.392" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2016.05.392</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2016.05.392" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.trpro.2016.05.392</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Identification of Hazardous Locations in Regional Road Network – Comparison of Reactive and Proactive Approaches

Original language description

The study objective is to compare three approaches to identification of hazardous road locations: (1) Traditional reactive accident-based approach, resulting in identification of accident black spots; (2) State-of-the-art empirical Bayes method using accident prediction model, which identifies critical locations, i.e. both real and potential black spots; (3) Proactive “preliminary” road safety inspection, identifying the risk factors, which may potentially increase accident occurrence and severity. Regional rural road network (approx. 1000 km) in South Moravia, Czech Republic was used. The methods were applied in identification and ranking of hazardous road locations in the studied network. It was found that black spot approach is not a suitable method, especially in low-volume road network with scattered accident occurrence. On the other hand risk index, based on road safety inspection, is a valid alternative, with ranking performance comparable to state-of-the-art empirical Bayes method. In addition both empirical Bayes and risk index methods are compared with respect to their data requirements. Their mutual application is recommended as a suitable replacement of traditional black spot management, as well as a step forward to a proactive road network safety management.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20104 - Transport engineering

Project

<a href="/en/project/ED2.1.00%2F03.0064" target="_blank" >ED2.1.00/03.0064: Transport R&D Centre</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Transportation Research Procedia (Transport Research Arena TRA2016)

ISBN

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ISSN

2352-1465

e-ISSN

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Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

4209-4217

Publisher name

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Place of publication

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Event location

Varšava

Event date

Apr 18, 2016

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

000383251004032