Road accidents with water polluting liquids (VSS2002/201)
Overview
Background & policy context:
Substances hazardous to water are either not readily degradable, toxic or they affect the environment adversely. If they get the environment unchecked, they can adversely harm the protection soil, groundwater, and water, particularly surface water.
There are numerous references provide information about accidents from road transports with dangerous goods. In this topic also a widespread knowledge about safety devices is available. In contrast there is a gap of research work discussing the relations between accidental incidents and safety measures. There are even no basics for an assessment of the appropriateness of design and construction measures. However, the present research fills this gap partly at least.
Objectives:
The main aim of the project is to create technical bases for projecting safety measures referring to road transports of water-threatening substances.
Part of the research work will be the elaboration of bases for a standard, which treats the road-side structural safety-measures against spilling water-threatening substances as consequence of road accidents. The research work contains information to judge structural measures referring to safety increase and appropriateness. Connections with related sectors like active and passive road safety, treatment of road surface water, activities of emergency services and precaution against major hazard will be pointed out. An important element of the research work are practice-oriented technical bases for projecting the structural measures.
Methodology:
The planning of safety measures is usually based on an assessment of hazardous incidents and there frequency. The study provides the basics for this purpose. Therewith, it is possible to perform a planning, obey the principles of appropriateness. The suggested procedure is transparent and practical.
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