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Safe System Snippet #105 Barrier Flexibility
The more flexible the barrier system the lower the risk to light vehicle occupants.In their paper titled Feasibility of Predicting Light Vehicle Occupant Injury Disutility from Impacts with Road Safety Barriers, Burbridge and Troutbeck (2016) graphed the Acceleration...
Safe System Snippet #104 Compact Roundabouts
Alternatives to raised safety platforms at compact roundabouts.Compact roundabouts on high-speed roads are cheaper than traditional roundabouts.Currently, raised safety platforms (RSPs) are used as an alternative to reverse curves to control vehicle speeds on the...
Safe System Snippet #103 Safer Road Design for Older Pedestrians
At large signalised crossings in Singapore you can swipe your Seniors Card to get an extended pedestrian phase.Victoria Walks estimates older pedestrians (70yo+) are at 1.6 times higher risk of road crash injuries than young adults. Check out the Safer Road Design for...
Safe System Snippet #102 Kerford Road Median Closure
Congratulations to the City of Port Phillip for prioritising the safety of the entire community by trialling the closure of the median on Kerferd Road in Albert Park. This decision was despite a local petition opposing the trial.The median closure and upgrades improve...
Safe System Snippet #101 Low Cost Roundabout
Dunedin, New Zealand – the land of the low-cost compact urban roundabout.The safety benefits of roundabouts are well known. They slow vehicles, remove ultimate priority to a leg and make drivers/riders alert at the conflict point. But the costs can be exorbitant. The...
Safe System Snippet #100 – 2+1 Median Barrier Road
A 2+1 median barrier road has a continuous three-lane cross section with alternating passing lanes. A central barrier provides road users protection from head-on and run-off-road crashes, and the overtaking opportunities improve efficiency and mean the road can cater...
Safe System Snippet #99 – Audio Tactile Line Marking
The effectiveness of Audio Tactile Line Marking (ATLM) is less for heavy vehicles compared to cars. This is because the vibrations through the vehicles are less in the larger vehicles. Truck shoulder rumble strips are an option where the risk of heavy vehicle...
Safe System Snippet #98 – Raised Reflective Pavement Markers
Raised Reflective Pavement Markers (RRPMs) can reduce the likelihood of night-time casualty crashes by up to 21% (Sun and Das 2013). The Victorian colour configuration is: Red: left edge line; right side of large splitter islands (diverging traffic) White: along or...
Safe System Snippet #97 – Shared Path Crossing Priority
Shared paths inevitably cross roads. The traditional approach was to terminate the shared path and then restart it on the other side of the road. More contemporary practice is to continue the shared path over the road on a raised platform and require vehicles to give...
Safe System Snippet #96 – Wonthaggi Raised Intersection
Best practice example - Wonthaggi raised intersection. When the intersection of the Bass Highway and Korumburra Road was to be upgraded, Regional Roads Victoria – Gippsland took the bold (and ethically responsible) step to protect the travelling community from road...
Safe System Snippet #95 – ANCAP Pedestrian Crash Test
ANCAP includes a pedestrian crash test that estimates likely head and leg injuries to child and adult pedestrians. The tests are conducted with head-forms and leg-forms fired at the vehicle at various locations, including the front bumper, bonnet, windscreen and...
Safe System Snippet #94 – High speed Y-Intersection
High speed Y-Intersection are one of the most hazardous intersection forms because: ⚠Drivers/riders from one leg may incorrect believe they have priority due to a see-through effect,⚠The angle of entry means one leg must give way to vehicles on an oblique angle (known...
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Safe System Snippet #93 – Traffic Signal Optimisation
Optimising traffic signal timings doesn’t just improve travel times for vehicles, cyclists and pedestrians, it also improves safety. In a study of 875 intersections, Roshandeh et al. 2016 found that, after signal optimisation, fatal and serious injury crashes reduced...
Safe System Snippet #92: Windscreen Washers
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcJ2W7aSp_M[/embedyt] Safe System Assessment of on-road collectors, windscreen washers and on-road entertainers. Check out the 6min video with lots of amazing footage of on-road activities. Last week our Principal...
Safe System Snippet #91 – Cameras Save Lives
Victoria publishes all fixed speed and red-light camera sites: https://lnkd.in/gv7z6mc There are also approximately 2000 locations across Victoria where mobile cameras can operate at any time on any day. Diamantopoulou & Cameron (2002) found that the strongest...
National Harmonisation of Temporary Traffic Management Practice | VIC March 2021
Join Thuan Nguyen (Safe System Solutions Pty Ltd.) & Richard Delplace (Austroads) in an AITPM webinar to hear the latest on the National Harmonisation of Temporary Traffic Management Practice. When: Wednesday 25th March at 12.30pm (AEDT) Register...
Safe System Snippet #90 – Angle Parking
Converting angle parking to parallel parking reduces casualty crashes by up to 35% (Elvik and Vaa, 2004). The awkward sight lines for drivers reversing out of angle parking causes them to be more likely to miss a vehicle in the through lane. This is particularly the...
Safe System Snippet #89 – Moray Street Roundabout
Safe System Solutions Pty Ltd conducted an evaluation of road user behaviour and their perceptions of safety at the Moray Street roundabout. Our evaluation found increased usage by both pedestrians and cyclists, large increases in perceived safety for both road user...
Cycling Auditor Training Course – March 2021
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcJ2W7aSp_M[/embedyt] Our popular Cycling Auditor one-day experiential course is back on the 25th March 2021 in Melbourne. The pandemic has more than doubled the number of people riding bikes, and pop-up bike lanes and new...