Road infrastructure safety management in Poland
Authors:
- Marcin Budzynski,
- Kazimierz Jamroz,
- Wojciech Kustra,
- Lech Michalski,
- Stanislaw Gaca
Abstract
The objective of road safety infrastructure management is to ensure that when roads are planned, designed, built and used road risks can be identified, assessed and mitigated. Road transport safety is significantly less developed than that of rail, water and air transport. The average individual risk of being a fatality in relation to the distance covered is thirty times higher in road transport that in the other modes. This is mainly because the different modes have a different approach to safety management and to the use of risk management methods and tools. In recent years Poland has had one of the European Union's highest road death numbers. In 2016 there were 3026 fatalities on Polish roads with 40,766 injuries. Protecting road users from the risk of injury and death should be given top priority. While Poland's national and regional road safety programmes address this problem and are instrumental in systematically reducing the number of casualties, the effects are far from the expectations. Modern approaches to safety focus on three integrated elements: infrastructure measures, safety management and safety culture. Due to its complexity, the process of road safety management requires modern tools to help with identifying road user risks, assess and evaluate the safety of road infrastructure and select effective measures to improve road safety. One possible tool for tackling this problem is the risk-based method for road infrastructure safety management. European Union Directive 2008/96/EC regulates and proposes a list of tools for managing road infrastructure safety. Road safety tools look at two criteria: the life cycle of a road structure and the process of risk management. Risk can be minimized through the application of the proposed interventions during design process as reasonable. The proposed methods of risk management bring together two stages: risk assessment and risk response occurring within the analyzed road structure (road network, road stretch, road section, junction, etc.). The objective of the methods is to help road authorities to take rational decisions in the area of road safety and road infrastructure safety and understand the consequences occurring in the particular phases of road life cycle. To help with assessing the impact of a road project on the safety of related roads, a method was developed for long-term forecasts of accidents and accident cost estimation as well as a risk classification to identify risks that are not acceptable risks. With regard to road safety audits and road safety inspection, a set of principles was developed to identify risks and the basic classification of mistakes and omissions. This work has added to the Polish experience of preparing and implementing such tools within the competent road authorities. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.
- Record ID
- CUTd34aea573cd54560a6185e1cba436268
- Publication categories
- ; ;
- Author
- Journal series
- IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, ISSN 1757-8981, e-ISSN 1757-899X, Irregular
- Issue year
- 2017
- Vol
- 245
- Pages
- [1-8]
- Article number
- 042066
- Other elements of collation
- rys.; wykr.; Bibliografia (na s.) - 8; Bibliografia (liczba pozycji) - 19; Oznaczenie streszczenia - Abstr.; Numeracja w czasopiśmie - Vol. 245
- Substantive notes
- Session II: Building Performance Simulations, Transportation, Architectural Space, Architectural Culture, Heritage, Social Sciences and Architecture, Theories of Vision and Visuality
- Conference
- World Multidisciplinary Civil Engineering-Architecture-Urban Planning Symposium (WMCAUS 2017), 2017, 12-06-2017 - 16-06-2017, Prague, Czechy
- Keywords in original language
- accident prevention, accidents, cost estimating, highway administration, highway planning, life cycle, motor transportation, network architecture, risk assessment, risk perception, roads and streets, safety engineering, transportation, urban planning, urban transportation, effective measures, european union directive, infrastructure managements, integrated elements, long-term forecast, risk classification, road infrastructures, road safety audits, risk management
- DOI
- DOI:10.1088/1757-899X/245/4/042066 Opening in a new tab
- URL
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1757-899X/245/4/042066 Opening in a new tab
- Language
- eng (en) English
- License
- Score (nominal)
- 15
- Additional fields
- Indeksowana w: Web of Science, Scopus
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- https://cris.pk.edu.pl/info/article/CUTd34aea573cd54560a6185e1cba436268/
- URN
urn:pkr-prod:CUTd34aea573cd54560a6185e1cba436268
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