Swedish Traffic Control Technique Report

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INRODUCTION The Swedish Traffic Control Technique is useful to address nature and seriousness of risk in any geographic locality where traffic poses threat to human and property damage . This technique was developed in University of Lund , where evasive maneuver such as braking , swirling and accelerating were taken into account , to calculate time to accident (TA value). This technique does not wait for accidents to happen , rather it analyzes events where road users perform an evasive maneuver to avoid a crash . Measuring such type of road user behavior is actually the essence of Swedish Traffic Control Technique. Hence , as many accidents are unregistered , this technique could also tackle that problem .Apart from its limitations as subjectivity , human and machine errors , it has been widely anticipated as successful technique because of results of such observation result in 80 % successful forecasting (Archer 2001). BRIEF EXPLANATION OF METHOD The Swedish Traffic Control Technique measures and record by video footage the …show more content…

All were serious conflicts. Between 3 till 4 p.m. , 9 conflicts were observed of which 4 were serious conflicts. The 4 conflicts occurred between vehicles and pedestrians and 4 between vehicles and bicycles and one was with car and car which also showed evasive action performed by both parties. One conflict also occurred in the second zebra crossing and one before second zebra crossing.5 were serious conflicts. Between 4 till 5 p.m. , 7 conflicts were observed in which 4 occurred between car and pedestrian. And 3 between car and bicycle. All were serious conflicts and one conflict involved in which evasive action was performed by both parties. One conflict occurred in the second zebra crossing. All were serious conflicts. TIME OF THE DAY STUDY

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