At the conference "Road Safety Europe" held in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany, September 21-23, 1998, one of the themes was "Road characteristics and safety". Fourteen of the papers presented within this framework were: Highway geometric design in tune with driving behaviour and traffic safety (Lamm, R.); Analysis of a level of an accident rate on entrance highways of St. Petersburg (Rekhov, S.); Fewer accidents in rebuilt four-legged intersections (Sorensen, M.); Porous macadam and road safety (Brailly, M., Ziani, A. and le Breton, P.); The geometrical elements of rural highways as safety factor. A case study in Greek road network (Basbas, S., Dalaveras, A., Latinopoulou, M. and Tsohos, G.); Analysis of influence of road factors on single vehicle run-off-the-road accidents: use of a vehicle/road model (Delanne, Y., Lechner, D. and Schaefer, G.); Improved vertical guidance devices for work construction zones (Meseberg, H.-H.); Work zone standards and ARROWS contribution for harmonization (Schulte, W.); Influence of the road texture on the visual anticipation of a collision during self-motion (Berthelon, C., Mestre, D. and Nachtergaele, C.); Crash cushions: a key element in a forgiving highway (Bigley, P.); Signing and marking of substandard horizontal curves on rural roads (Aakjer Nielsen, M. and Greibe, P.); Characteristics of some geometrical design elements of road blackspot sections (Nowakowska, M. and Major, H.); Traffic safety dependence on road quality in Lithyania (Skerys, K.); How to improve significantly the level of infrastructural road safety (ITS). A case study based on the application of road restraint systems (RRS) (Wink, B.).
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