Road safety experts suggest that road designs such as lane width, shoulder presence, number of lanes and median design influence driving behaviour such as operating speeds, lane changing, etc. Therefore, one could expect that ‘roads themselves play an important role in road safety, and improved geometry design and infrastructure could in turn help to improve road safety. However, road engineers can change the road design to reduce boredom and monotony. Road safety dataIt has been a tradition in ‘road safety to analyse road safety data in order to understand why crashes occur, which factors influence risks, and what determines crash severity, and then, based on this understanding, to arrive at reliable conclusions on how to prevent them most effectively and efficiently. In this approach, priorities are derived by using crash data, background data, exposure data and data on safety performance indicators’.

Source: The Hindu October 10, 2019 18:22 UTC