Urban planning and traffic safety at night

Urban planning including traffic signs serve vital functions, providing road users with regulatory, warning and guidance information about the roadway and surrounding environment. There are a large number of signs and even more guidelines on how these signs should be designed, installed, and maintai...

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Published in:IOP conference series. Materials Science and Engineering 2016-08, Vol.147 (1), p.12130
Main Authors: Ispas, N, Trusca, D
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Night
Roads
Traffic accidents
Traffic accidents & safety
Traffic control
Traffic planning
Traffic safety
Traffic signs
Urban planning
Visibility
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Summary:Urban planning including traffic signs serve vital functions, providing road users with regulatory, warning and guidance information about the roadway and surrounding environment. There are a large number of signs and even more guidelines on how these signs should be designed, installed, and maintained in concordance with on road surface traffic signs. More requirements for signs are made for night urban traffic, including appearance (size, shape, colour), placement (height, lateral, and longitudinal), maintenance (visibility, position, damage) and signs light and retroreflective. In the night, traffic signs visibility can interact by on pedestrian visibility and diminish urban traffic safety. The main aim of this paper are the scientific determination of an urban specific zone visibility for evaluate at night real conditions in case of a traffic accident in the Bra ov city area. The night visibility study was made using PC-Rect version 4.2. Other goal of the paper was to modify some urban planning solution in order to increase the urban safety in Brașov.
ISSN:1757-8981
1757-899X
DOI:10.1088/1757-899X/147/1/012130