The Safety Advisor: An Interactive Object-Oriented Program for Assessing the Safeness of Roadway and Roadside Designs

by Malcolm H. Ray, (M.ASCE), Momentum Engineering, Inc, Falls Church, United States,



Document Type: Proceeding Paper

Part of: Computing in Civil Engineering

Abstract:

This paper describes an object-oriented software tool for performing safety assessments of roadway designs. Safety assessments are used to estimate the effect of changes in roadway characteristics like horizontal curvature, travel speed, and the position of fixed objects on the safeness of the roadway. The Safety Advisor provides a structure for representing probabilistic models of accident risk. These models are parsed as input allowing the user to modify the fundamental basis of the software tool without changing the source code. These models are represented as objects that can be easily changed by the user to reflect local needs, user preferences or new policy. A brief description of the software, its design and its use are presented.

Subject Headings: Highway and road design | Traffic accidents | Safety | Traffic safety | Computer programming | Computer software | Computer models

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