Assessing the Effects of the Road Surface and Weather Conditions on Road Safety

Marcin Budzyński; Agnieszka Tubis

doi:10.2478/jok-2019-0061

Assessing the Effects of the Road Surface and Weather Conditions on Road Safety

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When transport is analysed for its safe delivery the focus is mainly on assessing the safety of roads and the risk of undesired events. These include road accidents, an occurrence which is relatively rare and random. Randomness means that accidents depend on several factors which are partly deterministic (can be controlled) and partly stochastic (random and unpredictable). The set of crash contributing factors can be classified by time (before, during, after the accident) and source (man, road, vehicle, environment – weather conditions, enforcement, etc.). The authors conducted an assessment of how weather conditions affect the risk of an accident due to the factor’s significant contribution to road accidents (33% of all fatalities on Polish roads happened on wet road surfaces). This case involves a combination of two sources of hazard: external conditions in the form of the weather which are beyond the driver’s control and anthropotechnical factors that address vehicle condition and driver behaviour controlled by the driver.

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Category:: Articles
Type:: artykuły w czasopismach
Published in:: Journal of KONBiN no. 49, pages 323 - 349,
ISSN: 1895-8281
Language:: English
Publication year:: 2019
Bibliographic description:: Budzyński M., Tubis A.: Assessing the Effects of the Road Surface and Weather Conditions on Road Safety// Journal of KONBiN -Vol. 49,iss. 3 (2019), s.323-349
DOI:: Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.2478/jok-2019-0061
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