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IN-SAFETY
Infrastructure and Safety
| Project details | |
|---|---|
| Domain | Road and Tunnel Infrastructure |
| Duration | from 01/2005 until 12/2007 |
| Website(s) | http://www.insafety-eu.org/ |
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Road safety engineering measures may sensibly reduce casualties. However, the rather high cost of traditional infrastructure construction/adaptations is a prohibiting factor. The combination of new technologies with existing infrastructure may lead to much more cost-efficient solutions.
IN-SAFETY project aims to use intelligent, intuitive and cost-efficient combinations of new technologies and traditional infrastructure best practice applications, in order to enhance the forgiving and self-explanatory nature of roads, by:
- Building consensus on priorities for regulation and standardisation processes and assessing the potential and cost-effectiveness of combined use of new technologies.
- Developing and testing new simulation models and risk analysis tools, to estimate the safety of road environments.
- Developing training tools and curricula for road and tunnel operators, focusing on the use of new technologies.
- Harmonising/optimising vertical and horizontal signing and personalising their information to the specific needs and wants of each user.
- Issuing priority implementation scenarios, guidelines for further research and policy recommendations for cost-efficient road environment development, road safety assessment and inspection, including new technological elements.
