Road restraint systems, including safety barriers, are one of the means used to improve road
safety. Currently, they can be allowed to general use after passing the specific crash tests …

This paper presents an enhanced probabilistic approach to estimate the real-world safety
performance of new device concepts for road safety applications from the perspective of …

Damage to lower parts of viaducts caused by impact from under-passing high vehicles is
relatively frequent. One such incident, in which a viaduct was damaged by the impact from a …

In this paper, numerical simulations of the EN 12767 test procedure for a vehicle–lighting
pole crash are presented. A representative soil–vehicle–lighting pole model is first …

Horizontal curves are one of the elements of road infrastructure where statistically a
relatively high number of accidents have been reported. In the last 10 years in Poland …

Cable barriers are one type of road restraint system commonly used on highways across the
United States to contain and redirect errant vehicles and to prevent crossover accidents …

The article describes a comparison of two general methods of occupants safety estimation
based on a numerical examples. The so-called direct method is mainly based on the HIC …

Objectives Guardrail end terminals are designed to gradually decelerate vehicles during
impact and protect vehicle occupants from severe injuries. It has been observed that some in …

The reliable speed of a vehicle, assigned to a given road arc, is not usually taken into
account in simulation of crash tests on road safety barriers located on horizontal concave …

La sécurité routière, et en particulier la réduction des accidents graves liés à un choc entre
un véhicule et un obstacle fixe, est un enjeu sociétal important. La majeure partie du réseau …