Friday, December 11, 2009

PIARC Catalogue of design safety problems and potential countermeasures

PIARC
October 2009

This catalogue presents a set of commonly design errors and suggests a range of measures to overcome them; it also gives an indication of the comparative countermeasure costs to facilitate prioritisation of the work. The catalogue can be used both as a proactive safety tool to ensure the design faults do not arise in the first place, or a reactive safety tool to assist in designing cost-effective countermeasures where problems already exist on the road network.

The situations considered are organized within 8 groups:

Function
Cross Section
Alignment
Intersections
Public and Private Services
Vulnerable Road Users
Traffic Signing and marking
Roadside Features
For each case, a sheet is presented with several illustrations.

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