[EN] One of every four road fatalities occurs on horizontal curves of two-lane rural roads. To this regard, many studies have been undertaken to analyze the crash risk on this road element. Most of them were based on the ...

Road safety is one of the most important problems in our society. It causes hundreds of fatalities every year worldwide. A road accident may be caused by several concurrent factors. The most common are human and infrastructure. ...

[ES] Las obras en la carretera con incidencia en el flujo de la circulación son cada vez más frecuentes y van adquiriendo mayor relevancia y preocupación entre los responsables de la gestión de la infraestructura y el ...

[EN] In this Trabajo Final de Grado (TFG), the necessary procedure is developed to carry out a Solutions Study for the location of a Longboard Park. Due to the Longboard is a little known sport and there are very few ...

[EN] Drivers are the most important factor in traffic operation and road safety. However, study of drivers’ behavior is complicated because of their characteristics. The best results in this area have been achieved by using ...

[EN] To assist in the on-going effort to reduce road fatalities as much as possible, this paper presents a new methodology to evaluate road safety in both the design and redesign stages of two-lane rural highways. This ...

Este screencast muestra cómo evaluar la consistencia de un trazado de carretera a partir de la estimación del perfil de velocidad de operación.

[EN] Road safety is closely related to geometric design consistency, which is usually assessed by examining operating speed. Most consistency models only consider passenger car speeds, even though the interaction between ...

[EN] The number of road safety studies that are based on driving simulators is growing significantly. The Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain, developed a low-cost driving simulator for the assessment, training, and ...