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MATUSZKOVÁ, R.; RADIMSKÝ, M.
Original Title
Traffic Safety in Road Tunnels
English Title
Type
Paper in proceedings (conference paper)
Original Abstract
Construction of tunnels has positive effect both economical and ecological, as tunnels lower travel time and has low impact on environment. This paper focuses on traffic safety in road tunnels and describes specific issues which may effect how drivers perceive situation or help towards the accident. Paper also describes three the most tragic accidents in road tunnels which led to significant increase of safety requirements. According to analysis of traffic accidents in selected highway tunnels, accident rate in tunnels isn’t any different comparing to road infrastructure in rural areas. Relative accident rate which considers length of tunnel, traffic intensity and time, shows that there are 0.10 to 0.73 accidents per million vehicle-kilometers per year.
English abstract
Keywords
tunnel, traffic safety, accident rate
Key words in English
Authors
RIV year
2017
Released
28.03.2016
Publisher
Sciemcee Publishing
Location
London
ISBN
978-0-9928772-9-3
Book
Proceedings of the 5th CER Comparative European Research Conference - International Scientific Conference fro PhD Students of EU Countries
Edition
II
Pages from
1
Pages to
4
Pages count
BibTex
@inproceedings{BUT124002, author="Radka {Matuszková} and Michal {Radimský}", title="Traffic Safety in Road Tunnels", booktitle="Proceedings of the 5th CER Comparative European Research Conference - International Scientific Conference fro PhD Students of EU Countries", year="2016", series="II", number="I", pages="1--4", publisher="Sciemcee Publishing", address="London", isbn="978-0-9928772-9-3" }