Agricultural Vehicles and Rural Road Traffic Safety: an Engineering Challenge
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Date of publication
Décembre 2012
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NARCIS:wur:oai:library.wur.nl:wurpubs/429842
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Open Access, this refers to access without restrictions, and without financial incentives. Access to the resource is gained directly, without any obstacles. From info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Road collisions are a problem world-wide. Related to the kilometers traveled on public roads agricultural vehicles (AVs) are over-represented in reported numbers of traffic victims. We aim to investigate how agricultural engineering can reduce accidents with AVs involved on public roads. We therefore relate so-called accident factors to the 3 road system components; driver, vehicle and road. We summarize the significance of 10 accident factors and describe possible preventive measures from an engineering perspective. We show that all road system components may attribute to a structural improvement of traffic safety with AVs on public roads. Agricultural engineering can play a role in each of them.
