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Road Safety - Part 1 Flashcards

1
Q

How many people die in australia due to road crashes?

A

4 die
550 injuries
48000 crashes

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2
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Is the road traffic injury problem man made problem?

A

Yes

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3
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What are the desired transport outcomes?

A
  • Safer Transport to support safer communities
  • Efficient and effective transport to support industry competitiveness
  • Environmental management to support environmental conservation
  • accessibility to promote equity and social cohesion
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4
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What is the ranking for vulnerability of injury

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Higher to Lower

Pedestrians
Bicyclists
Motorcyclists
Car Occupants

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5
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Which states has the highest road toll?

A

Sweden
NSW
QLD
Victoria

From highest to lowest

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6
Q

What is externality?

A

Transaction is an impact on a party that is not directly involved in the transaction

Something that impacts others (crash costs whole community not just individual)

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7
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What percentage of human factors contribute to road crashes?

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95% for human

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8
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What is the biggest factor of injury?

A

Velocity/Speed

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9
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What is Haddons Matrix?

A

a Matrix which provides an analysis framework

Phases: Before Crash, During crash, After crash

Factors : Human, vehicle, road

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10
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How is cost of crashes calculated?

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  1. Human Capital

2. Willingness to pay

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What are the components to human capital cost?

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  • Health, injury costs
  • Expenses of death
  • Vehicle and property damange
  • emergency services
  • legal costs
  • loss of future earnigns
    costs QLD $2.5M
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12
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What are the components of willingness to pay

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How much youre willing to pay to avoid being killed

  • Estimating value individuals attach to human life
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13
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What is vision zero?

A

Cannot build a new piece of infrastructure that could kill someone

To fund this:
Fines, restrictions, higher costs

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14
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What is the road safety strategy?

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Exposure control
Crash Prevention
Injury Control
Behaviour
Post injury
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15
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What is the safety engineering mindset?

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Mobility - a function of traffic safety
Crashes have multiple causes
Systematic analysis of reliable data

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16
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How are users match to systems?

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Influencing opportunity for a crash to occur,
Influencing probability of a crash occurring
controlling the process of energy exchange

17
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What are the principles for safe design?

A

Match road design to purpose
Make separated provisions for incompatible forms
Minimise conflict points & reduce probability of collision
Manage for crash severity
Speed Management

18
Q

What is the decision making process?

A

Optimum time to ensure mobility with safety is at the time of original design
Adopt a systematic road safety audit process
crash and injury data sets are used to identify black spot or black lengths
Community and politicians focus on absolute numbers

19
Q

What are the ways data is collected?

A

0: pedestrians
1: Intersections
2: Vehicle Opposite
3: Vehicle Same
4: Manoeuvring
5: Overtaking
6: On Path
7: Off Path Straight
8: Off Path Curve
9: Pass and Misc

20
Q

Is decision making depend on the quality of the data?

A

Yes

21
Q

What is the current trend for road deaths?

A

decreasing
Sweden lowest
Australia at or just below OECD median

becoming harder to improve

22
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What information is required?

A 
Comprehensive
Objective
 Consistent
Accurate
Accessible
Efficient
Accurate Locations
Sequence of events
Analyse by factors
Cost Consequence 
Rank site
23
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What are the main sources of data?

A
  • Police
  • Hospital Admin
  • Insurance
  • Coroner
24
Q

What are some other data that is required for safety?

A
  • Demographic
  • traffic volume
  • seatbelt usage
  • road length
25
Q

What are the limitations?

A 
Under reporitng
Bais
Errors
Definitions
Delay
Statistics
26
Q

How is the data used?

A

Performance indicators and benchmarking
Development of countermeasures
Countermeasure targeting

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