摘要: |
Improving safety on non-strategic rural roads is regarded as being a challenging task. This is because crashes and casualties, particularly the less numerous fatal and serious incidents, tend to be dispersed widely across these networks. Rural networks may also have poor infrastructure with high vehicle speeds and low traffic flows leading to sections which have very high safety risks but low crash and casualty occurrence. These aspects can make identifying the rural road sections which most need to be treated to improve safety difficult. Identifying affordable, appropriate engineering-based solutions is also a challenge since these design fixes generally need to be applied along considerable lengths of road rather than at short, individual “hotspots”. This project aimed to identify ways that the Department for Transport (DfT) could research, and potentially develop tools that could help local authority staff in the UK to better manage road safety on rural roads. |