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MATEC Web Conf.
Volume 262, 2019
64 Scientific Conference of the Committee for Civil Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Science Committee of the Polish Association of Civil Engineers (PZITB) (KRYNICA 2018)
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| Article Number | 05003 | |
| Number of page(s) | 8 | |
| Section | Transportation Engineering | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201926205003 | |
| Published online | 30 January 2019 | |
The effects of vehicle restraint systems on road safety
Gdahsk University of Technology, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 11/12 Narutowicza st., 80-233 Gdańsk, Poland
* Corresponding author: mbudz@pg.edu.pl
Key to understanding the needs and tools of road infrastructure management for preventing runoff-road crashes or minimising their consequences, is to identify the hazards and sources of hazards caused by wrong or improper use of road safety devices and identify errors in the design, structure, construction and operation of road safety devices. Studying such an extended scope of the problem required fieldwork and surveys with road authorities, designers, road safety auditors and road maintenance services. An outline of new guidelines could only be developed after understanding the effects of restraint systems, the design, additional elements, type of road and safety barrier location on a road or engineering structure and the road and traffic conditions on their functionality and safety. The paper will present the preliminary results of this research (research project – ROSE). One way to understand the functionality of road safety devices is to build numerical models and conduct simulation tests of virtual crash tests. The article presents the scope of work conducted as part of an effort to develop new vehicle restraint system guidelines.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2019
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