Urban transport system monitoring : the "black points" problem.

Author(s)
Vignolo, M.G. & Nordio, A.
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Abstract

The "European road safety Action Programme - halving the number of road accident victims in the European Union by 2010: a shared responsibility" (Bruxelles - 02.06.2003) says that every year in Europe 1.300.000 road accidents cause more than 40.000 deaths and 1.700.000 injured. Direct and indirect costs due to such a problem have been evaluated 160.000.000 euros, that is 2% of EU GNP. In the same program they complain about the difficulties of solving the problem, especially at urban scale. Our research underlines the most important contents of the Italian "guidelines for urban road safety plans". This study at last wants to suggest an innovative methodology to analyze and control road safety, with particular reference to the "black points" of urban road infrastructure, to prevent and reduce the incident risk. The application of opportune methodologies and the continuous monitoring action of the results represent the correct strategy to solve the problem of the road safety that, in accordance with the European Directive, has to be considered as a "value" and as a "performance indicator". For the covering abstract see ITRD E128680.

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C 36207 (In: C 36168 [electronic version only]) /82 / ITRD E128719
Source

In: Urban Transport X : urban transport and the environment in the 21st century : proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Urban Transport and The Environment in the 21st Century, Dresden, Germany, 2004, p. 399-406, 8 ref.

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