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Category Archives: Safety
A new project aims to improve the safety of bus companies
The safety culture of the bus industry is the focus of a new research project at VTI. The aim is to study factors that affect safe and legal behaviour in traffic, and how such behaviour can be encouraged.
The long-term and comprehensive road safety objective is to eliminate death and serious...
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Posted in Passenger Transport, Policy and Planning, Safety
Tagged bus, management system, public transport, safety, safety culture
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The pedestrian perspective in two new VTI projects
Posted in Safety, Simulation
Tagged geofencing, pedestrians, safety, walking
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Impacts of connected and automated driving on national road authorities’ policy targets
The main purpose of this article is to summarize state of the art on the impacts of connected and automated driving (CAD) on travel demand, travel behavior, traffic flow, safety and energy (reported in MANTRA deliverable D3.1). The review is based on ongoing and recently completed EU and national...
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Posted in Intelligent Transport Systems, Safety, Simulation, Traffic and Traffic Control
Tagged automated driving, automation, CAD, CEDR, connected driving
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A driving licence withdrawal can have major consequences in everyday life
A withdrawn driving licence can have negative consequences for a person’s ability to shape their own life. A study from VTI investigates how individuals with visual field loss have been affected by no longer being permitted to drive.
For a person with a driving licence and access to a car, a...
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Posted in Human Behaviour and Attitudes, Safety
Tagged driver, driving licence, driving licence withdrawal, visual field loss
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How vehicles can avoid accidents on newly paved roads
Friction is an important property for road safety. VTI has investigated how roads change in the first few weeks after surfacing work has been completed. Researchers recommend posting warning signs when the road is opened and waiting at least three weeks to measure the friction of the road.
A few...
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Posted in Maintenance, Safety
Tagged friction, measurements, newly paved roads, road safety, surfacing
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VTI contributes to study on older drivers and accidents
On behalf of and in collaboration with the Swedish Transport Agency, VTI has carried out a study of older drivers and the link between illness and traffic accidents. The Transport Agency has now published the results.
The issue of periodic medical screening for older drivers does not need to be...
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Posted in Safety
Tagged accident risk, illness, older drivers, traffic accident
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Safety culture as a regulatory tool in transport
Researchers at TØI have examined how the concept of safety culture is practiced in different transport sectors in Sweden.
The Swedish Transport Agency has defined safety culture as part of the regulatory strategy. This involves focusing on safety culture in audits (through a 28-point checklist)...
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Posted in Policy and Planning, Safety
Tagged safety, safety culture
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China wants to work with the best – a valuable partnership for VTI
Through the CTS cooperation, VTI is gaining valuable research contacts with China. The country is facing major challenges in the field of road safety but also has enormous potential.
CTS stands for China-Sweden Research Centre for Traffic Safety and is a collaborative organisation which VTI has...
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Tagged China, China-Sweden Research Centre for Traffic Safety, cooperation, CTS, international, traffic safety
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