Project
Road safety : Importance of landscape in the legibility of a road (VSS2003/602)
Funding origin:
Switzerland
STRIA Roadmaps:
Other ()
Transport mode:
Road
Transport sectors:
Passenger transport
Freight transport
Project website:
Duration:
Start date: 02/06/2004,
End date: 17/12/2008
Status: Finished
Funding details:
Overview
Background & policy context:
The legibility of a road is an important aspect of road safety and it is directly influenced by the landscape. The research need is to identify the possible landscape layouts which would improve the legibility of the road and therefore also the overall safety.
On that base, types of landscape layout will be recommended to increase the safety of dangerous road's sections and to improve projects of new roads.
Objectives:
The project has following objectives:
- Improving road user's safety by strengthening the legibility of road course with plantations
- Meeting the K28 target of the Road safety national policy (VESIPO)
- Defining the role of the landscape in the legibility of a road and its influence on the safety.
- Conceiving an analysis tool allowing locate and identify problems of safety due to a bad legibility of the road in the landscape
- Proposing solutions which require landscape modifications
Methodology:
The approach proposed in this study will take place in the following stages:
• Bibliographic research
• Analysis accident-logical
• Selected Case Studies
• Synthesis of information collected
• Development of recommendations and bases for a standard
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