LEARNING OUTCOMES
After the successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
- Know the basic concepts and dimensions of Road Safety
- realize the benefits of an integrated parking management system
- understand the characteristics of parking and the importance of data collection and analysis to identify hazardous locations and problems and evaluate relevant measures
- consolidate the influence of various factors (driver, infrastructure, vehicle) in causing and dealing with road accidents.
General Competences
After the successful completion of the course, students acquire the following knowledge and skills:
- Search for analysis and synthesis of data and information with the use of the necessary technology
- Adapting to new situations
- Decision-making
- Working independently
- Criticism and self-criticism
- Design and project management
- Production of free, creative and inductive thinking
SYLLABUS
Theoretical part of the Course
- Road Safety
29.Data Collection and Analysis
30.Correlation of Accidents with Road Environmental Characteristics
31.Correlation of Accidents with User and Vehicle Characteristics
32.Identification of black spots
33.Study of black spots and Improvements
34.Evaluation of Improvement results - Urban Road Network
35.Parking Characteristics – Surveys
36.Layout – characteristics of Parking places
37.Multilevel parking stations – Bus stations
38.Research – Construction – Maintenance
39.Operation & Exploitation of Parking places
40.Financial Data of Parking places
Lab Part of the Course
Students create groups of 4 students and carry out counts of pedestrians and vehicle conflicts at predetermined junctions at a major road artery of Athens area. Based on these counts, the first project concerns the analysis of data collected and the development of traffic conflicts diagrams and the second exercise concerns the calculations of concerns the identification of high risk sites.
STUDENT PERFORMANCE EVALUATION
Language of evaluation: Greek
Theoretical part of the Course
• Written exam (70%)
Lab Part of the Course
• Delivery of individual tasks and oral examination
ATTACHED BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Book: “Road Safety “, J. Frantzeskakis – J. Golias, 2008
2. Book «Parking», J. Frantzeskakis, Μ. Pitsiava-Latiopoulou, D. Tsamboulas, 2002