The Effect of Road Infrastructure on Traffic Accidents
- DOI
- 10.2991/apte-18.2019.27How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Safety, road infrastructure, road infrastructure elements, traffic accidents, road users
- Abstract
Planning, Designing and constructing road infrastructure should give priority to the safety and comfort for road users. Ironically, road infrastructure often becomes the cause of traffic accidents. However, such problem can be solved with a profound understanding in the effect of road infrastructure formation elements on the risk of accidents, so that the handling taken can be more efficient. This study aims to (1) review and see the effect of road infrastructure on accidents, (2) provide handling efforts to improve road infrastructure safety. Secondary sources in the form of books and academic journals were reviewed to answer the research objectives above. The results of the study indicated that the elements in road infrastructure formation had significant effect on the risk of traffic accident. Preventing and handling traffic accidents in terms of the road infrastructure can start from planning, designing, constructing, and improving road infrastructure in accordance with prevailing procedures such as Road Safety Audit (RSA) and Road Safety Inspection (RSI). The role of government such as making safety design standard, assuring compliance with these rules, and methods to measure and rate the overall level of safety being achieved is needed in order to improve road safety.
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Ardilson Pembuain AU - Sigit Priyanto AU - Latif Suparma PY - 2019/10 DA - 2019/10 TI - The Effect of Road Infrastructure on Traffic Accidents BT - Proceedings of the 11th Asia Pacific Transportation and the Environment Conference (APTE 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 176 EP - 182 SN - 2352-5401 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/apte-18.2019.27 DO - 10.2991/apte-18.2019.27 ID - Pembuain2019/10 ER -