TRAFFIC ENGINEERING TREATMENT OF HAZARDOUS LOCATIONS

One of the most important roles for engineers in road and traffic engineering relates to the provision of safe roads. Many of the other sections in this book address practices which directly or indirectly contribute to a safer road environment. This section focuses specifically upon the identification and treatment of hazardous road locations, ie those locations within the road network which are over-represented in terms of their crash history. Brief mention is also made of pro-active crash prevention treatments, especially road safety audit. (A) For the covering abstract see IRRD 878474.