Citation

La Torre F, Saleh P, Cesolini E, Goyat Y. Procedia Soc. Behav. Sci. 2012; 53: 235-244.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.09.876

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Accidents involving roadsides are typically extremely "unforgiving". Even though the roadside design can affect only marginally the actual number of accidents occurring on a road, the severity of crashes can be considerably reduced if roadsides are designed to be more "forgiving".Within the IRDES project a practical and uniform guideline that allows the road designer to improve the forgivingness of the roadside and a practical tool for assessing the effectiveness of applying a given roadside treatment have been produced for the following set of roadside features: barrier terminals; shoulder rumble strips; forgiving support structures for road equipment; shoulder width.