Publication detail

Traffic Safety in Road Tunnels

MATUSZKOVÁ, R. RADIMSKÝ, M.

Original Title

Traffic Safety in Road Tunnels

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

Construction of tunnels has positive effect both economical and ecological, as tunnels lower travel time and has low impact on environment. This paper focuses on traffic safety in road tunnels and describes specific issues which may effect how drivers perceive situation or help towards the accident. Paper also describes three the most tragic accidents in road tunnels which led to significant increase of safety requirements. According to analysis of traffic accidents in selected highway tunnels, accident rate in tunnels isn’t any different comparing to road infrastructure in rural areas. Relative accident rate which considers length of tunnel, traffic intensity and time, shows that there are 0.10 to 0.73 accidents per million vehicle-kilometers per year.

Keywords

tunnel, traffic safety, accident rate

Authors

MATUSZKOVÁ, R.; RADIMSKÝ, M.

Released

28. 3. 2016

Publisher

Sciemcee Publishing

Location

London

ISBN

978-0-9928772-9-3

Book

Proceedings of the 5th CER Comparative European Research Conference - International Scientific Conference fro PhD Students of EU Countries

Edition

II

Edition number

I

Pages from

1

Pages to

4

Pages count

4

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT124002,
  author="Radka {Matuszková} and Michal {Radimský}",
  title="Traffic Safety in Road Tunnels",
  booktitle="Proceedings of the 5th CER Comparative European Research Conference - International Scientific Conference fro PhD Students of EU Countries",
  year="2016",
  series="II",
  number="I",
  pages="1--4",
  publisher="Sciemcee Publishing",
  address="London",
  isbn="978-0-9928772-9-3"
}