Putting safe system into practice – safe system roadside design principles
Keywords: Road Furniture (Poles, Signs, Etc), Road Design, Road Safety Barriers, Safer Roads, Road Environment
ACRS
Submission Date: 2018 Conference: ARSC
Abstract
To support the rollout of Victoria’s Towards Zero Strategy which looks to address lane departure accidents on 20 of its highest risk roads, VicRoads Network Design Services – Safe System Design Team, developed a design guideline for practitioners on the application of continuous barrier treatments based on existing hazard treatment principles with a number of evolutionally learnings along the way. Practitioner/Policy Focused.