Issue |
MATEC Web Conf.
Volume 122, 2017
XI International Road Safety Seminar GAMBIT 2016
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Article Number | 02005 | |
Number of page(s) | 7 | |
Section | Safe road infrastructure | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201712202005 | |
Published online | 10 August 2017 |
Functionality of road safety devices – identification and analysis of factors
Gdansk University of Technology, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Gdansk, Poland
* Corresponding author: lukjelin@pg.gda.pl
Road safety devices are designed to protect road users from the risk of injury or death. The principal type of restraint is the safety barrier. Deployed on sites with the highest risk of run-off-road accidents, safety barriers are mostly found on bridges, flyovers, central reservations, and on road edges which have fixed obstacles next to them. If properly designed and installed, safety barriers just as other road safety devices, should meet a number of functional features. This report analyses factors which may deteriorate functionality, ways to prevent this from happening and the thresholds for loss of road safety device functionality.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2017
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