The Environment: Roadway Design, Environmental Factors, and Conflicts

The main goal of this chapter is to provide an overview of the type of effects of road design, public lighting, and adverse weather conditions on driving behavior and traffic safety. The main goal was to get the reader to understand the primary processes and provide a basis for further detailed literature searches or new experimental studies. The section about conflicts between road users and video observations illustrates that focusing on accident analysis is too limited. Observing behavior and conflicts is extremely valuable in understanding safety and traffic accidents, again offering the possibility to improve road design.

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