Road barriers management system: a tool to optimize the allocation of resources
2011
The Province of Pisa has organized since 2007 a database of road accidents where comprehensive data collected by all police departments of the whole provincial territory is assembled. The aims are both managing and archiving of all data and using them to define a policy to optimize the allocation of resources to have less road accidents and less negative consequences. The road barriers, as passive protection safety tools, constitute one of the most important elements in road management, especially in cases of hazardous road anomalies common in older road systems. Government spurs local road administrations to check the condition and functionality of its own road barrier assets and plan the best intervention (conservation, replacement, rehabilitation). The Province of Pisa defined three classes of hazard (high, medium and low) as regard to the possible consequences to vehicle occupants in cases of skidding. For every road section the hazard was valued for the presence of obstacles or high slopes and the condition of road barrier assets. The accumulation of all the data resulted in the determination that available funds were not sufficient to execute an ideal solution. So officials need to choose where to install first. This makes it necessary for the Province to establish a policy of how best to allocate existing funds. Risk levels for every road section were defined and a ranking of priorities was organized.
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