Network Screening for Smarter Road Sites: A Regional Case

  • Attila Grieco Centro di Monitoraggio Regionale della Sicurezza Stradale –Ires Piemonte
  • Chiara Montaldo Centro di Monitoraggio Regionale della Sicurezza Stradale –Ires Piemonte
  • Sylvie Occelli Centro di Monitoraggio Regionale della Sicurezza Stradale –Ires Piemonte
  • Silvia Tarditi Centro di Monitoraggio Regionale della Sicurezza Stradale –Ires Piemonte
Keywords: Road Safet, Road network screening, Regional monitoring centre, Crash data

Abstract

Road safety has been a main societal and policy issue in many European countries since the early years of last decade. After the 2000-2010 Road Safety Programme launched by the European Commission, in 2011 the Commission adopted the new 2020 programme, even more demanding than the previous. As the societal consequences of road casualties are increasingly perceived as a core dimension of smart mobility, road safety system is now facing new challenges. Current mobility shifts to softer and greener transportation means raise new safety concerns for an increasingly larger share of vulnerable road users. The need to integrate road safety requirements with other residential, mobility, and environmental policies calls for a more detailed understanding of the phenomenon at different spatial levels and with different observation lenses. The pilot study described in this paper is a contribution to this end. It aims at identifying the accident prone sites of the regional road network to help prioritizing safety interventions, by the regional administration having road planning responsibilities. The study develops a screening approach to select hazardous road locations, outside urban premises, from the Piedmont provincial and state roads. The most recent data for the 2010-2012 years were considered, drawn from the ISTAT road accident database, managed by the CMRSS. The procedure consists of the following steps: identification of the elementary road sections to be screened, through a GIS analysis; definition of the screening groups (road sections have been subdivided in 4 length classes); definition of the selection criteria, with two severity thresholds based on the crash density; classification of the elementary road sections by severity thresholds.

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Author Biographies

Attila Grieco, Centro di Monitoraggio Regionale della Sicurezza Stradale –Ires Piemonte

He has a 1st degree in Economy, Territory and Environment and a 2nd degree in Political Science. Researcher, data analist, journalist and scientist in information design, he works at the Piedmont Institute of the Socio-Economic Research Institute, where he collaborates with the Piedmont Road Safety Monitoring Center since 2008.

Chiara Montaldo, Centro di Monitoraggio Regionale della Sicurezza Stradale –Ires Piemonte

She has a degree and PhD in Architecture and Regional Planning. She works since 2001 on issues of sustainable mobility and road safety, at first at Turin Polytechnic, then at the Piedmont Institute of the Socio-Economic Research Institute, where she collaborates with the Piedmont Road Safety Monitoring Center since its establishment, in 2007.

Sylvie Occelli, Centro di Monitoraggio Regionale della Sicurezza Stradale –Ires Piemonte

She holds a laurea in Architecture and Regional Planning. In 1987 she joined the Piedmont Institute of the Socio-Economic Research Institute where she currently leads a research unit aimed at fostering innovation in public administrations. She has published in various fields of regional science, ranging from housing, transportation, mobility urban modeling and spatial analysis. Current research interests include: road safety policy, socio-technical systems, ICT and regional development and the role of model-based activity as a way to support modernization in policy practices.

Silvia Tarditi, Centro di Monitoraggio Regionale della Sicurezza Stradale –Ires Piemonte

She holds a laurea in Architecture and Regional Planning. She works since 2004 on GIS systems and management of data processing, at first at Turin Polytechnic, then at Piedmont Institute of the Socio-Economic Research Institute, where she collaborates with the Piedmont Road Safety Monitoring Center since 2008.

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Published
2014-05-14
How to Cite
GriecoA., MontaldoC., OccelliS., & TarditiS. (2014). Network Screening for Smarter Road Sites: A Regional Case. TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment. https://doi.org/10.6092/1970-9870/2497