Infrastructure and Safety in a Collaborative World Road Traffic Safe
The book investigates how, and which, forgiving road environments (FOR) and self-explaining road measures (SER) will contribute to increasing road safety and also increase network efficiency on the road. It presents both the general approach and the
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Evangelos Bekiaris Marion Wiethoff Evangelia Gaitanidou l
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Infrastructure and Safety in a Collaborative World Road Traffic Safety
Editors Dr. Evangelos Bekiaris Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) Hellenic Insitute of Transport (HIT) 6th Km Charilaou – Thermi Rd. 570 01 Thermi, Thessaloniki Greece [email protected]
Dr. Marion Wiethoff Delft University of Technology Fac. Technology, Policy & Management Jaffalaan 5 2628 BX Delft Netherlands
Evangelia Gaitanidou Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) Hellenic Insitute of Transport (HIT) 6th Km Charilaou – Thermi Rd. 570 01 Thermi, Thessaloniki Greece [email protected]
ISBN 978-3-642-18371-3 e-ISBN 978-3-642-18372-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-18372-0 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011931678 # Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Cover design: eStudio Calamar, Girona/Berlin Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface by the Editors
July 2011 Dear Readers, After 3 years of collaborative research (and a lot of fun!) in the IN-SAFETY research project, we found that a lot of good knowledge has been created, that should not be left “at the shelves”. Some embryonic concepts when we conceived the IN-SAFETY ideas (back in 2003!) were later mainstreamed. “Self-explanatory roads”, “forgiving roads”, “cooperative systems” were still vague ideas when the project started in 2005, but are in the focus of current research. Thus, we at IN-SAFETY, feel pioneers. In reporting our cumulative knowledge, we strived to add more know-how from distinguished researchers outside IN-SAFETY, thus offering added value to the reader. The book is conceptually composed of 5 parts and 19 chapters. After a preface by one of the leading figures in ITS research in Europe and beyond, Prof. G. Giannopoulos, head of CERTH/HIT, an introduction on the importance of Transport Research for Europe by the father of eSafety initiative, Jean-Pierre Me´devielle, and a short intervention by the Director of POLIS (the agglomeration of over 65 Municipalities with telematic applications in Europe), Mr. Haon, the first part of the book
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