RIPCoRD-ISEREST

Road Infrastructure Safety Protection, Core Research and Development for Road Safety in Europe – Increasing Safety and Reliability of Secondary Roads for a Sustainable Surface Transport

 

Objective of the project
In all (European) countries the casualty rate (casualties per kilometre travelled) is highest on rural secundary roads. Using existing knowledge, this project investigated which instruments road authorities can use to improve their road network.

 

SWOV contribution
SWOV was leader of workpackage 2: Accident Prediction Models and Road Safety Impact Assessments. In this workpackage mathematical model were developed which for a certain road category calculate the expected safety level at a given intensity.

 

Duration
2003-2006

 

Resultats/publications
Matena, S., Weber, R., Huber, C.A., Hruby, Z., Pokorny, P., Gaitanidou, E., Vaneerdewegh, P., Strnad, B., Cardoso, J., Schermers, G. & Elvik, R. (2007). Road Safety Audit - Best practice guidelines, qualification for auditors and "programming". Deliverable D4 of the RIPCoRD-ISEREST project. European Commission, Brussels.

 

Eenink, R., Reurings, M., Elvik, R., Cardoso, J., Wichert, S. & Stefan, C. (2007). Accident prediction models and road safety impact assessment: recommendations for using these tools. Deliverable D2 of the RIPCoRD-ISEREST project. European Commission, Brussels.

 

Matena, S., Louwerse, W.H.J., Schermers, G., Vaneerdewegh, P., Pokorny, P., Gaitanidou, L., Elvik, R., Cardoso, J., (2008). Road design and road environment - Best practice on self-explaining and forgiving roads. Deliverable D3 of the RIPCoRD-ISEREST project.  European Commission, Brussels.

 

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