Guide to traffic management: part 13: road environment safety
2009
The Austroads Guide to
Traffic Managementhas 13 parts and provides comprehensive coverage of
traffic managementguidance for practitioners involved in
traffic engineering, road design, town planning and road safety. Part 13 Road Environment Safety is concerned with
traffic managementpractice under the Safe
System philosophy. The guide emphasises the need for the road system to provide an environment which assists road users to behave effectively and safely. It considers the role of
traffic managementin influencing road user behaviour, and provides guidance for practitioners specifically on road safety aspects of
traffic management. Part 13 defines a safe road environment and the broad approaches for achieving it. It outlines basic human factors as related to users of the road and
trafficenvironment, and how these can be influenced by road design and
traffic managementpractice. It also describes the basic components of road
safety engineeringand its application in terms of risk engineering concepts, primary strategies and
safety management systems; and outlines the principles and practice of managing safety in the road environment, as related to road infrastructure features and the basic tools of
traffic engineeringand management. (a)
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