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Road Safety And Urban Road Networks

Course Code:

GEO9170

Semester:

9th Semester

Specialization Category:

S.

Course Hours:

4

ECTS:

5

Eclass Link:

https://eclass.uniwa.gr/courses/GEO222/


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

  1. 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
  2. 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