The need for improving urban road safety, livability, and sustainability is evident. Quantitative estimates and qualitative methods/strategies can be used by road safety practitioners to design safety interventions. This study proposes a flexible integrated design framework for safety interventions on existing urban road segments and intersections that integrates quantitative and qualitative methods. The proposed design framework is divided into four stages of the safety management process: End of Network Screening, Diagnosis, Selection of Countermeasures, and Economic Assessment. Pilot applications of the proposed method were performed on existing roads of the urban road network of the Municipality of Bari, Italy. Results from the application were useful to highlight some possible problems in the different stages of the design process. In particular, the discussed problems include a lack of crash and traffic data, difficulties with defining the road functional classifications, including rural-to-urban transitions, a lack of local inspection procedures, the recurrent problems from diagnosis, difficulties regarding the safety assessment of cycling infrastructures and sight distances, the criteria for grouping countermeasures into sets, and the choice of appropriate predictive methods. In response, appropriate solutions to the highlighted problems were presented. The usefulness of the proposed method for both practitioners and researchers was shown.

An Integrated Design Framework for Safety Interventions on Existing Urban Roads—Development and Case Study Application / Colonna, Pasquale; Intini, Paolo; Berloco, Nicola; Fedele, Veronica; Masi, Giuseppe; Ranieri, Vittorio. - In: SAFETY. - ISSN 2313-576X. - ELETTRONICO. - 5:1(2019). [10.3390/safety5010013]

An Integrated Design Framework for Safety Interventions on Existing Urban Roads—Development and Case Study Application

Colonna, Pasquale
;
Intini, Paolo
;
Berloco, Nicola;Fedele, Veronica;Masi, Giuseppe;Ranieri, Vittorio
2019-01-01

Abstract

The need for improving urban road safety, livability, and sustainability is evident. Quantitative estimates and qualitative methods/strategies can be used by road safety practitioners to design safety interventions. This study proposes a flexible integrated design framework for safety interventions on existing urban road segments and intersections that integrates quantitative and qualitative methods. The proposed design framework is divided into four stages of the safety management process: End of Network Screening, Diagnosis, Selection of Countermeasures, and Economic Assessment. Pilot applications of the proposed method were performed on existing roads of the urban road network of the Municipality of Bari, Italy. Results from the application were useful to highlight some possible problems in the different stages of the design process. In particular, the discussed problems include a lack of crash and traffic data, difficulties with defining the road functional classifications, including rural-to-urban transitions, a lack of local inspection procedures, the recurrent problems from diagnosis, difficulties regarding the safety assessment of cycling infrastructures and sight distances, the criteria for grouping countermeasures into sets, and the choice of appropriate predictive methods. In response, appropriate solutions to the highlighted problems were presented. The usefulness of the proposed method for both practitioners and researchers was shown.
2019
An Integrated Design Framework for Safety Interventions on Existing Urban Roads—Development and Case Study Application / Colonna, Pasquale; Intini, Paolo; Berloco, Nicola; Fedele, Veronica; Masi, Giuseppe; Ranieri, Vittorio. - In: SAFETY. - ISSN 2313-576X. - ELETTRONICO. - 5:1(2019). [10.3390/safety5010013]
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