Abstract:
A research project, “IRUMS – Safer urban roads”, aims to develop a procedure for the
explicit consideration of safety issues in the decision making process of urban
transportation networks and in the allocation of resources for street renewal. More
specifically, criteria for selecting dangerous urban sites (areas or sections) are being
defined and a procedure for selecting efficient infrastructure corrective safety measures
is being developed. Co-financed by the Foundation for Science and Technology, this
project is carried out by the National Laboratory of Civil Engineering and the
Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Coimbra, with the cooperation of
the Lisbon Municipality and the Portuguese Police.
Five years road accident records, data on road infrastructure characteristics and traffic
and land use information were collected and integrated in a Geographic Information
System, where all information may be graphically visualized and analysed. The
database and the process of feeding it are broadly described in this paper.
This paper also presents a State of the Art for Urban Road Safety Measures that will be
associated to evaluate different possibilities of implementation in the Lisbon Network.
