Collective Risk - Second Map
2nd Map – Collective risk on international roads
The 2nd Map presents the collective risk present on international roads in Poland in 2005-2007. This risk concerns the whole society and the group of road users and is measured with the density of accidents that involve fatalities and severe injuries per the length of a section during 3 years covered by the analysis. The general European scale of describing risks on roads has been adopted for the assessment.
The 2nd Map presenting the collective risk of all accidents that involve fatalities and severe injuries indicates that:
- there are several sections on international roads with very a high density of accidents – 10% of such sections are ‘black’, i.e. characterised by the highest risk level,
- most ‘black sections’ occur on access roads to cities and agglomerations, where traffic is most intense, and
- nsections of newly constructed motorways are safest.
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The presented map of collective risk on international roads in Poland may assist:
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the society and users of individual sections of roads, in demanding from road managements the improvement of traffic safety on the most dangerous sections,
- the road administration, in taking decisions to improve the road safety system and in selecting the sequence of measures taken for road safety,
- the institutions that supervise road traffic (police, transport inspectorate), in locating preventive and control measures, and
- politicians, in supporting measures for road safety, starting from the most dangerous sections of roads.
Fifteen sections (located on the national roads No. 1, 2, 4, 5, 7 and 17) were qualified as black sections in both approaches. More than 10 persons die or are severely injured on each of these sections every year. These sections should be designated for modernization or reconstruction first, as they feature the highest potential of fatalities and severe injuries reduction.
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