Title :
System approach to study of traffic accidents with hazardous substances presence
Author :
Prochazkova, Dana ; Prochazka, Jan ; Prochazka, Zdenko ; Patakova, Hana ; Strymplova, Veronika
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Transp. Sci., Czech Tech. Univ. in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Abstract :
The traffic accidents with presence of hazardous substances have been occurred at transportation on roads, rail roads, rivers, seas, oceans and in air. To the origination of such accident there has been contributed the items as: vehicle design, traffic speed, roadway design, environ round roadway, skill and defects in driver´s behavior, and also the properties of shipped hazardous substances. On the basis of integral safety concept the considered accidents are solved as mobile sources of risks. The paper contains the results of research obtained by critical analysis of impacts of relevant accidents in the word and in the Czech Republic, and proposals of measures for upgrade of safety of considered shipping that improve protection of humans from hazardous substances.
Keywords :
accidents; design engineering; hazards; road safety; road traffic; transportation; Czech Republic; hazardous substances; human protection; integral safety concept; rail roads; roadway design; system approach; traffic accidents; traffic speed; transportation; vehicle design; Accidents; Contamination; Indexes; Pediatrics; Roads; critical infrastructure; hazardous substances; human security; impacts; safety; traffic accidents;
Conference_Titel :
Smart Cities Symposium Prague (SCSP), 2015
Conference_Location :
Prague
DOI :
10.1109/SCSP.2015.7181553