CAREC Road Safety Engineering Manual 6: Identifying, Investigating, and Treating Blackspots
This manual explains how to identify and address hazardous traffic blackspots in Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) countries to help save lives, reduce injuries, and support economies.
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Drawing on case studies, the manual highlights the importance of crash data and explains how to pinpoint and assess blackspots and how to adjust roads, signage, and lighting to address them. Designed to support engineers, police, and planners, it discusses how to prioritize locations in allocating funding and why tackling high-frequency sites is cost-effective as well as lifesaving.
About the CAREC Road Safety Engineering Manuals
The series of road safety engineering manuals of the CAREC Program came from the endorsement of the CAREC Road Safety Strategy 2017-2030 by member countries. The strategy supports and encourages CAREC authorities to plan, design, construct, and maintain safe roads.
Contents
- Engineers Have an Important Role in Road Safety
- Overview of the Blackspot Process
- Identifying Blackspots
- Investigating a Blackspot
- Treating a Blackspot with Suitable Countermeasures
- Determining Which Blackspots to Fund
- Blackspot Case Studies
- The Next Steps
- Glossary
- Appendixes
Additional Details
- Regional cooperation and integration
- Transport
- Roads and Highways
- Afghanistan
- Azerbaijan
- China, People's Republic of
- Georgia
- Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyz Republic
- Mongolia
- Pakistan
- Tajikistan
- Turkmenistan
- Uzbekistan
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- 8.5 x 11
- TIM240274-2
- 978-92-9270-703-3 (print)
- 978-92-9270-704-0 (PDF)
- 978-92-9270-705-7 (e-book)
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