Infrastructure and Safety in a Collaborative World Road Traffic Safety /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bekiaris, Evangelos (Editor), Wiethoff, Marion (Editor), Gaitanidou, Evangelia (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Automotive engineering.; Regional economics.; Spatial economics.; Automotive Engineering.; Regional/Spatial Science.

The book investigates how, and which, forgiving road environments (FOR) and self-explaining road measures (SER) will contribute to increasing road safety and also increase network efficiency on the road. It presents both the general approach and the methodology for generating the possible FOR and SE...

Table of Contents:

• Europe at the crossroad
• From accidents to measures
• Towards forgiving and self-explanatory roads
• Structuring the way
• A bundle of ideas
• Drawing the picture
• Models on the road
• Planning ahead
• Managing the risk
• Back to school
• Staying in line
• Easy going
• Look and see… - Without words
• A European road dialect
• As you like IT
• Best things first
• Value for money
• Anybody listening?
• Our future.