Road Safety Review: Methodology and implementation on six roadsways in the town of Natick, Massachusetts

Benavente Macaya, Marta

dc.contributor	Hancock, Kathleen
dc.contributor	Robusté Antón, Francesc
dc.contributor.author	Benavente Macaya, Marta
dc.contributor.other	Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Infraestructura del Transport i del Territori
dc.date.accessioned	2007-03-09T11:27:45Z
dc.date.available	2007-03-09T11:27:45Z
dc.date.issued	2003-07
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2099.1/3400
dc.description	Roadway safety is a key element of transportation. Identifying dangerous situations on roadways, determining what factors affect safety, and looking for appropriate solutions to ultimately improve overall roadway safety are essential tasks of transportation professionals. Road safety audits and reviews are strategies to improve road safety by minimizing the risk and severity of crashes. The main objective is to identify features of the roadway environment that could be potentially dangerous to road users and to ensure that measures to eliminate or reduce the problems are fully considered. One of the most critical factors in roadway safety is speed gradient. Speeding occurs nearly every day on almost every road, however, on certain roads, speeding has more severe consequences than others.Despite their low traffic volumes, almost half of all speeding fatalities occur on local and collector roads.This research provides a methodology to conduct road safety reviews on existing local roads with documented speeding problems. The procedure is broken down in three parts: the office review, the field review, and the final report.
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
dc.subject	Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria civil::Infraestructures i modelització dels transports::Transport per carretera
dc.title	Road Safety Review: Methodology and implementation on six roadsways in the town of Natick, Massachusetts
dc.type	Minor thesis
dc.rights.access	Open Access
dc.audience.educationlevel	Estudis de primer/segon cicle
dc.audience.mediator	Escola Tècnica Superior d'Enginyers de Camins, Canals i Ports de Barcelona
dc.audience.degree	ENGINYERIA DE CAMINS, CANALS I PORTS (Pla 1995)