Citation

Hauer E. Accid. Anal. Prev. 2019; 129: 180-189.

Affiliation

35 Merton Street Apt. 1706, M4S3G4, Toronto, Canada. Electronic address: ezra.hauer@utoronto.ca.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.aap.2019.04.022

PMID

31154285

Abstract

Decisions that highway and traffic engineers make significantly affect the safety of road users. The documents that guide highway and traffic engineering practice suggest that many of these decisions be made by 'engineering judgment'. One would like this judgment to be informed by evidence-based anticipation of their likely safety consequences and by a professional ability to balance safety against mobility and other dimensions of 'utility'. I show that these desiderata are largely unfulfilled. The many implications of this finding are discussed.

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Language: en

Keywords

Ethics; Highway design; Road user safety; Standards; Traffic engineering; Warrants