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Single carriageway multilane roads are not, in general, a very safe type of road, mainly because of the high number of seriously injured victims in head-on collisions, when compared with dual carriageway multilane roads, with a median barrier.In this paper the results of a study on the effect of the application of several low cost engineering measures, aimed at road infrastructure correction and road safety improvement on a multilane road EN6), are presented. The study was developed by the National Laboratory of Civil Engineering (LNEC) for the Portuguese Road Administration and involved a comparison of selected aspects of motorized trafficbehaviour (traffic volumes and speeds) measured in several sections of EN6, as well as monitoring of road safety developments in the same road. The applied low cost engineering measures allowed a reductionof 10% in the expected annual number of personal injury accidents and a 70% decrease in the expected annual number of head-on collisions; the expected annual frequency of accidents involving killed and seriously injured persons was reduced by 26%.

This paper summarizes the result of a study which contributes to the improvement of road safety in urban areas, through the creation of tools that can be used in intervention methods in the planning and management of road networks.The first tool relates the creation of a geocoded database of road accident occurred in Lisbon between 2004 and 2007, which allowed the definition of digital maps, with the possibility of a wide range of consultations and crossing of information.The second tool concerns the development of models to estimate the frequency of accidents on urban networks, according to different desegregations: road element (intersections and segments); type ofaccident; and inclusion of explanatory variables related to the road environment.

The research reported in this paper is based on a hypothetical revealed preference experiment for valuing traffic noise nuisance as perceived in the interior of apartments located in Lisbon. The experiment used both the observed behavior of householders

Hierarchical Bayesian regression models, with differing hyper-prior distributions, are considered as accident prediction models to be fitted on data collected over several years on the Portuguese motorway network. A sensitivity analysis is performed by way of simulation to investigate the practical implications of the choice of informative hyper-priors (Gamma, Christiansen and Uniform) and non-informative Gamma, as well as various sample sizes and years of aggregated data, on the results of a road safety analysis, in particular, at detecting high accident risk locations. It was concluded that informative hyper-priors were best at detecting hotspots when small sample sizes were considered. For bigger samples the various hyper-priors produced equivalent outcomes. Furthermore, more accurate results were obtained when more years of data were analyzed.

In several cities around the world, measures have been taken to encourage and promote walking and cycling, herein designated as soft mobility modes, which had a high success and contributed to a more sustainable transport system. Within the European context, Portugal has one of the lowest modal split shares of walking and cycling. This is mainly the result of several decades of a transport planning process oriented to road transport infrastructures

Although stated choice applications to the valuation of transport noise remain novel, there is now a growing body of evidence from which to draw insights into the results and the appropriateness of the methodological approach. This paper draws on the evidence available, which includes four studies by the authors utilising stated choice experiments to value aircraft noise at Lyon, Manchester and Athens airports and road traffic noise in Edinburgh and Lisbon and other key studies.

International comparisons are frequently used to assess the road safety performance of a country or to monitor its development over time, at a national or regional level. In most instances either accident or injury risks have to be considered, which results in the need for a quantitative estimation of the amount of travel, namely traffic volumes. Only in special cases may risks be indirectly compared using methods of induced exposure.The required data on traffic volumes is not always readily available. This is especially true if old data or data from several countries for a long period are to be used, as in comparative time series analysis. Several simplifying assumptions can be adopted to bypass this lack of data but often the estimates resulting from these simple assumptions are not entirely satisfactory.Between 1996 and 1998 the European Union (EU) sponsored, within the scope of the 4th Research Framework Programme, a COST Action (COST 329) to analyse and establish a common methodological framework for description and analysis of safety developments

O presente trabalho insere-se no âmbito de um protocolo entre o IMT - Instituto da Mobilidade e dos Transportes, I.P. (IMT) e o Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil (LNEC) e destina-se a dar resposta à medida 25.92 do objetivo estratégico Infraestruturas Mais Seguras da Estratégia Nacional de Segurança Rodoviária

A conceção tradicional do ambiente rodoviário em zonas urbanas tem dado primazia ao espaço destinado ao tráfego automóvel, disponibilizando pouco espaço para os restantes utentes. Aalteração do paradigma da mobilidade que vivemos atualmente tem invertido esta tendência, com uma crescente prioritização de espaço para os utentes vulneráveis. A conceção deste espaço deve no entanto ser efetuada de forma a garantir a segurança, a atratividade e a funcionalidade do espaço urbano, permitindo a fruição confortável desse espaço por todos os utentes. Neste contexto, as Zonas 30 podem ser vistas como soluções eficazes para alcançar esses objectivos.Neste resumo é apresentado o trabalho desenvolvido no âmbito de uma dissertação de mestrado sobre a conceção de redes rodoviárias em zonas de 30 km/h, no qual são apresentadas recomendações de soluções geométricas para estas áreas que assentam no conceito de estrada autoexplicativa e nos princípios do Sistema Seguro.

The abstract outlines the new Portuguese design standards for urban roads, focusing on pedestrian infrastructure. It highlights the need for inclusive and safe urban design, considering pedestrian diversity and vulnerability. Aligned with PENSE 2020 and the Safe System principles, these standards enhance road safety, particularly for vulnerable users. They define pedestrian pathways within the public domain, including sidewalks, paved routes, and crossings, while acknowledging informal pedestrian movement. The guidelines address design dimensions, interactions with urban elements, and road hierarchy. Safety measures include traffic calming, segregated zones, shared spaces, and speed regulation.

Africa is the worst performing Continent in road safety and year after year the situation worsens. To reverse this trend, it is essential to bear in mind that road safety problems in Africa should be preferably considered in their own context, as well as the proposed solutions to address them. Towards this direction, the objective of this paper is to present the development of the SaferAfrica Transferability Audit within the EU funded SaferAfrica project, and its pilot application to identify the barriers to the potential implementation of good road safety practices in five selected African Countries (Tunisia, Kenya, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, and South Africa). The proposed tool allows assessing whether the implementation of a given road safety intervention may face problems within one (or more) of the three domains of the Road Safety Space: Society/Culture, Economy, and Institutions. A total of 14 responses were obtained from stakeholders of the five countries. The stakeholders surveyed have different backgrounds: public employees, academics and non-governmental organizations participants. Cameroon had the largest participation, with a total of eight responses; two responses were received from Burkina Faso and Tunisia, each; and only one response was received from Kenya and South Africa. With a total of five responses, the Safer Road Users pillar of the African Road Safety Action Plan was the one with the highest participation. Economy issues are the most challenging for transferability of road safety interventions in Kenya, South Africa and Tunisia, while in Burkina Faso and Cameroon it is Society/Culture.

In Portugal, from 2010 to 2016, 97% of the injured pedestrians occurred on streets and roads in urban areas. This study aims to investigate the risk factors associated with various levels of injury severity that pedestriansexperience in the city of Lisbon, Portugal. To accomplish this analysis, a geocoded database on road accidentsand victims occurred in Lisbon between 2008 and 2011 was used.The analysis was conducted using a multinomial logit model, to estimate pedestrian

The research presented in this article reflects on the transport policy and planning processes in France and Portugal. The transport policy and planning processes in France began in 1982 with the publication of the law of orientation for inland transports (LOTI). France with more than thirty years of experience on developing

Spatial organization in cities has often given a special attention to the requirements of motorized vehicles, neglecting pedestrians and cyclists

A segurança dos peões pode ser melhorada através do conhecimento dos fatores influentes na ocorrência de acidentes e vítimas. Neste domínio é comum a consideração de variáveis relacionadas com o ambiente rodoviário para explicar o fenómeno e a gravidade das suas consequências.Nesta comunicação apresenta-se um estudo que visou aumentar o conhecimento nesta matéria, através da análise da influência de vários fatores nos níveis de gravidade das lesões por atropelamento, como sejam características selecionadas da infraestrutura, usos do solo, população e outros fatores de exposição. Foi utilizada para este fim uma base de dados georreferenciada de acidentes rodoviários e vítimas ocorridos em Lisboa entre 2008 e 2011.

A análise de dados de sinistralidade rodoviária tem sido usada para orientar políticas conducentes à melhoria da segurança rodoviária, bem como para melhorar a conceção e o dimensionamento de estradas e veículos. As metodologias estatísticas atualmente aplicadas à informação registada sobre sinistralidade permitem o desenvolvimento de modelos de estimativa de frequência dos acidentes e modelos explicativos da gravidade dos mesmos, capazes de serem usados para determinar com rigor a influência de múltiplos fatores na frequência e gravidade das lesões resultantes dos acidentes rodoviários. Outrossim, é possível aprofundar o conhecimento existente sobre os fatores acima mencionados, recorrendo a outras abordagens metodológicas.Neste contexto, é possível estudar o tempo decorrido (ou a distância percorrida) até à ocorrência de um evento ou a duração do mesmo. Dados como estes, são referidos na literatura como dados de duração, e podem ser analisados através de modelos de duração baseados em risco (Hazard-based duration models), os quais têm sido amplamente utilizados em campos como a medicina, as ciências sociais e a engenharia industrial. Contudo, são escassos os estudos que aplicaram modelos de duração à segurança rodoviária. Através do desenvolvimento destes modelos, o estudo reportado na presente comunicação permitiu identificar o efeito de diversos fatores na distância percorrida por um veículo descontrolado após sair da faixa de rodagem e embater num obstáculo perigoso presente na área adjacente à faixa de rodagem.Este estudo demonstra que os modelos de duração são adequados à investigação das distâncias percorridas por veículos descontrolados em despistes. Os resultados obtidos podem contribuir para a melhoria das características da área adjacente à faixa de rodagem e para a implementação de medidas mais eficientes para mitigar a gravidade dos despistes.

O governo português lançou o programa nacional U-Bike que visa incentivar os alunos, professores e funcionários das universidades a optarem pela bicicleta nas suas deslocações regulares, através de um programa de aluguer de longa duração de bicicletas convencionais ou assistidas eletricamente. O objetivo deste artigo é analisar o potencial de adesão ao programa U-Bike e mudança de comportamento na mobilidade, baseado num inquérito on-line realizado à comunidade do campus da Alameda do Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), com 1406 respostas válidas. Os resultados sugerem que uma parte importante desta comunidade poderia aderir ao U-Bike, nomeadamente se as bicicletas fossem elétricas.

The application of low-cost road and traffic engineering measures (LCEM) is a cost-effective method for reducing accidents and their consequences. Empirical evidence shows that enforcement contributes to improvements on driving behaviour and road safety; however, results from reducing enforcement are seldom presented.In this paper a presentation is made of the impact LCEM and changes in enforcement intensity had on selected driving behaviour variables and safety levels on a 170 km single carriageway trunk road. LCEM were implemented on the road, followed a year later by the commitment of exceptionally intense and severe law enforcement and, after two years, its relaxation. The impacts of these safety interventions were evaluated through observational before-after studies. The expected number of injury accidents was reduced by 41% (less 75% fatalities), when considering the combined effect of LCEM and enforcement; suppression of strict enforcement was related to a 20% increase in the number of fatalities.

This case study refers to a successful application of an asphalt rubber wearing course in the frame ofthe rehabilitation of the pavement of the National Road EN 1 between Landiosa and Picoto.It concerns asphalt rubber manufactured by the wet process, using gap-graded aggregates. / O presente caso de estudo refere-se à aplicação bem sucedida de misturas com betume modificadocom borracha reciclada de pneus em camada de desgaste, no âmbito das obras de reabilitação dopavimento da estrada nacional EN 1, entre Landiosa e Picoto.Diz respeito, em particular, ao fabrico, por via húmida, de mistura betuminosa com borrachautilizando agregados com granulometria descontínua.

Manual de boas práticas para uma mobilidade sustentável, no âmbito do projecto nacional "Mobilidade Sustentável" coordenado pela Agência portuguesa do Ambiente (Vol. II). O projecto Mobilidade Sustentável envolveu uma rede de 15 centros de investigação/universidades do país, incluindo o LNEC.

Nesta publicação apresentam-se os aspectos relativos à concepção do projecto Mobilidade Sustentável, principais conclusões e recomendações.

Traffic management is gaining increasing importance in solving the major problem of traffic congestion present in many countries. Traditional techniques of RADAR, LIDAR and LASAR to address this problem are no longer an efficient solution, as they are time-consuming and expensive. In this modern age of growing technology and population, challenges are being overcome with several new ways to make the traffic system smarter, more reliable and robust, considering the overall interaction of all the traffic components: vehicles, drivers and pedestrians. These systems are largely supported on Intelligent Traffic System (ITS), and their applications are mostly dedicated to traffic monitoring based on video processing, vehicle detection and tracking. Intelligent surveillance systems may also employ computer vision and pattern recognition techniques. This chapter addresses these new solutions that are being used for traffic management, their advantages and disadvantages, the challenges of their implementation, and most important, the ability to support traffic management systems in their pursuit of solving critical problems of congested transportation networks.

O tempo decorrido (ou a distância percorrida) até à ocorrência de um evento, ou a duração do mesmo, podem ser analisados através de modelos de duração baseados em risco (hazard-based duration models), os quais têm sido amplamente utilizados em campos como a medicina, as ciências sociais e a engenharia industrial. Contudo, são relativamente escassos os estudos que aplicaram modelos de duração à engenharia de transportes.Este capítulo inclui dois exemplos de aplicação de modelos de duração à investigação em engenharia de transportes. O primeiro diz respeito às distâncias percorridas por veículos descontrolados em despistes ocorridos na Carolina do Norte (E.U.A.). O segundo refere-se ao tempo decorrido até à transferência modal nas deslocações para a escola de um conjunto de alunos de 162 turmas de 51 escolas do ensino básico em Portugal.

Em Portugal, a investigação sobre o conhecimento dos fatores que afetam a probabilidade de ocorrência de acidentes tem-se centrado essencialmente nas estradas interurbanas. No entanto, as zonas urbanas, onde ocorrem elevadas percentagens de acidentes corporais requerem uma atenção prioritária. Com o presente estudo pretendeu contribuir-se para a melhoria da segurança rodoviária em meio urbano, através da criação de ferramentas que podem ser utilizadas em métodos de intervenção em que a segurança dos utentes vulneráveis seja considerada explicitamente nas fases de planeamento e gestão das redes viárias. Uma das referidas ferramentas resultou da elaboração de modelos de estimativa de frequência de acidentes para redes urbanas, segundo diversas desagregações, em função de características do elemento rodoviário: em intersecções (três ramos, quatro ramos e rotundas) e em segmentos; segundo o tipo de acidente (atropelamentos e restantes acidentes com vítimas); e segundo a inclusão de variáveis explicativas relacionadas com o ambiente rodoviário: simplificados (apenas com as variáveis de exposição) e globais (com todas as potenciais variáveis explicativas). O desenvolvimento destes modelos foi apoiado numa base de dados georreferenciada dos acidentes rodoviários ocorridos em Lisboa entre 2004 e 2007, com a qual foi possível explorar os dados de sinistralidade na área geográfica em análise. Estas ferramentas podem ser usadas diretamente na gestão das infraestruturas rodoviárias da cidade de Lisboa e, após pequenas adaptações, estendidas a outros municípios, dotando as respetivas entidades competentes em matéria de segurança rodoviária com informação rigorosa e detalhada sobre os fatores intervenientes na ocorrência de acidentes em meio urbano e a respetiva distribuição espacial.

Os dados discretos ou em escala nominal desempenham um papel fundamental nos transportes porque muitas análises de políticas lidam com estes tipos de dados. Exemplos de dados discretos nos transportes incluem o modo de transporte (automóvel, autocarro, comboio), o tipo ou categoria de veículo e o tipo de acidente rodoviário (despistes, colisões frontais, colisões traseiras, etc.). O conhecimento do efeito das diferentes intervenções de segurança rodoviária na redução da gravidade das lesões resultantes de acidentes rodoviários exige uma avaliação empírica detalhada das interações, reconhecidamente complexas, entre veículos, estrada e fatores humanos.Os avanços mais recentes nas metodologias estatísticas aplicadas a dados discretos sobre sinistralidade rodoviária permitiram o desenvolvimento de modelos sofisticados capazes de serem usados para determinar com rigor a influência dos fatores acima referidos nos níveis de gravidade das lesões resultantes dos acidentes rodoviários.Neste contexto, a aplicação de modelos de resultado discreto permite identificar um conjunto de fatores, relacionados com a envolvente rodoviária, que são estatisticamente relacionáveis com a gravidade das lesões dos utentes envolvidos em acidentes rodoviários, permitindo aperfeiçoar a conceção e o dimensionamento das estradas, bem como orientar políticas conducentes à melhoria da segurança rodoviária. Este capítulo inclui um exemplo de aplicação do modelo logit multinomial usando a gravidade das lesões no condutor como variável de resposta.

Spatial organization in cities has often given a special attention to the requirements of motorized vehicles, neglecting pedestrians and cyclists

The importance of sustainable urban mobility plans is widely recognized by local and regional authorities across Europe. Technological innovation opportunities such as those offered by current and future ICT can contribute for cities to advance towards sustainable mobility and accessibility for inclusive public spaces.This article is built on an innovative living lab experience of the Intermunicipal Community of the Algarve (AMAL), the regional transport authority, scientifically supported by the LNEC, in Portugal, that comprised the development of the designated

O conhecimento dos factores que afectam a probabilidade de ocorrência de um acidente éuma área de investigação relevante de há muitas décadas devido aos enormes custos para asociedade dos acidentes rodoviários. Em Portugal, os desenvolvimentos nesta matériacentraram-se essencialmente nas estradas inter-urbanas. No entanto, as zonas urbanas,caracterizadas por elevadas percentagens de acidentes corporais (cerca de 69% do total entre2004 e 2008), requerem uma atenção prioritária.Com o presente estudo pretendeu contribuir-se para a melhoria da segurança rodoviária emmeio urbano, através da criação de ferramentas que podem ser utilizadas em métodos deintervenção em que a segurança dos utentes vulneráveis seja considerada explicitamente nasfases de planeamento e gestão das redes viárias.A primeira ferramenta correspondeu à criação de uma base de dados georreferenciada dosacidentes rodoviários ocorridos na cidade de Lisboa entre 2004 e 2007, que permitiu adefinição de mapas digitais, com possibilidade de uma grande diversidade de consultas e decruzamentos de informação.A segunda ferramenta refere-se à elaboração de modelos de estimativa de frequência deacidentes para redes urbanas, segundo diversas desagregações: segundo o elementorodoviário: em intersecções (intersecção de três ramos, intersecção de quatro ramos erotundas) e em segmentos; segundo o tipo de acidente: atropelamentos e restantes acidentescom vítimas; e segundo a inclusão de variáveis explicativas relacionadas com o ambienterodoviário: simplificado (apenas com as variáveis de exposição) e global (com todas aspotenciais variáveis explicativas). Foi considerada a incorporação de dados de exposiçãorelativos aos utentes vulneráveis por forma a melhorar a capacidade de estimativa dasinistralidade em redes urbanas.Estas duas ferramentas podem ser usadas directamente na gestão de infra-estruturas, dotandoas entidades com competência em matéria de segurança rodoviária com informação rigorosa edetalhada sobre os factores intervenientes na ocorrência de acidentes em meio urbano erespectiva distribuição espacial.

No período de 1988 a 1993, ocorreram anualmente nas estradas rurais de uma faixa de rodagem e dois sentidos da Rede Rodoviária Nacional de Portugal, em média, cerca de 1471 acidentes corporais anuais em curva fora de cruzamentos. Estes acidentes constituem cerca de 33% dos acidentes corporais fora de cruzamentos participados na referida rede.O objectivo do presente trabalho é contribuir para o conhecimento da influência da estrada na ocorrência de acidentes e para o desenvolvimento de um método para avaliação de traçados rodoviários do ponto de vista da segurança.Foram realizadas in situ campanhas de recolha de dados sobre as distribuições de velocidades dos condutores, os quais foram relacionados com as características geométricas das estradas e com a respectiva sinistralidade. Foram desenvolvidos modelos para estimativa de perfis de velocidade de circulação livre, bem como modelos para estimativa da frequência de acidentes, em estradas de uma faixa de rodagem e dois sentidos, adaptados às condições de tráfego nacionais. Os referidos modelos foram integrados num procedimento para detectar inconsistências de velocidade em especial associadas à ocorrência de acidentes em curva, o qual foi usado para fundamentar uma proposta de quantificação de critérios de homogeneidade de traçado, adaptados à realidade do sistema de tráfego rodoviário português.

Work Package 3 of SafetyNet deals with Safety Performance Indicators. They measure the operational conditions of the road traffic system. Work Package 3 deals with seven topics: alcohol and drug use; speeds; protective systems; daytime running lights; vehicles; road; trauma management. This deliverable concerns the contribution of Work Package 3 to the first SafetyNet conference, which was held in Prague on May 10 and 11, 2006. Each topic prepared a poster with an overview of the state-of-play. In this document, these posters are assembled. Each topic has a preferred indicator, which can be used for measuring safety performance across countries. This indicator is accompanied by requirements that should be met by the data, in order to be able to calculate the indicator. For most tasks, values could be calculated for the indicators by using the available data. Data are not available for all countries and/or all topics.

This report is one of three area reports that examine the road safety performance of the nine countries participating in the SUNflowerplus project. This area report compares the road safety situation of the Southern countries of Greece, Portugal and Spain (including a separate analysis for the Spanish autonomous region of Catalonia).The aim of this report is to identify the major road traffic risk differences between Southern European countries based upon a comparative approach initially applied by the SUN (Sweden, United Kingdom & the Netherlands) countries, and focussed on the analysis of fatalities by users of different modes of road transport.The method for comparing the Southern countries has been developed from that of the original SUNflower report (SWOV, 2002), and is reflected in the organisation of the chapters:- Description of national policy and plans. - Description of the transport context.- Fatalities by road user mode and collisions between modes.- Case studies for: drink-driving, seat belts, young drivers, speed management, pedestrians, mopeds and motorcycles.In some cases (for example, young drivers and pedestrians), the indicators used to compare the situation in the Southern countries are common to those reported in the SUN and Central areas. In other cases (for example, speed management) the situations are very different and there is less scope for comparison.SUNflower+6 compares statistics for road fatalities in terms of fatalities within 30 days of the accident. In all three Southern countries, the figures are based on national factors applied to police data recording deaths within 24 hours. In producing indicators, various efforts to improve data systems have been detected. In general, a greater use of information and communications technologies could improve the process of data registration as well as facilitating improved analysis.All three countries (and the autonomous region of Catalonia) have published a plan covering a period of three or more years (including the current year of 2005) that sets quantified targets for a reduction in the number of road accident fatalities. Such progress in road safety planning is a relatively new aspect of road safety activity in the Southern countries studied. The targeted reductions for Portugal are even more ambitious than those of the EU White Policy paper proposing a halving in road deaths by 2010, whilst those for Spain and Catalonia are in line with the European overall projection and those for Greece are more modest.

GeneralRoad safety can be assessed in terms of the social costs of crashes and injuries. However, simply counting crashes or injuries is an imperfect indicator of the level of road safety. When crashes occur it is the

The SUNflower+6 project is based on a comparative study regarding road safety in nine countries and one autonomous region from the EU. These countries are divided into three groups: -

Ce document est la traduction en langue française du manuel destiné à appuyer la mise en oeuvre d'audits de sécurité routière au projet d

O presente documento constitui o primeiro relatório referente à actividadedesenvolvida pelo Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil (LNEC) e pela Faculdadede Ciências e Tecnologias da Universidade de Coimbra (FCT/UC) no âmbito doprojecto IRUMS

O presente documento constitui o quinto relatório referente à actividade desenvolvidapelo Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil (LNEC) e pela Faculdade de Ciências eTecnologias da Universidade de Coimbra (FCT/UC) no âmbito do projecto IRUMS

The present document describes prediction models for accident, fatalities,serious injuries and killed and seriously injured victims, adjusted to bidirectionaldata of Portuguese motorway sections. The study was developed at LaboratórioNacional de Engenharia Civil (LNEC) in the scope of Workpackage 2 - SafetyImpact Assessment and Accident Prediction Model of the RIPCORD-ISERESTproject, carried out under the 6th European Framework Program. It covers theissues related to modeling accidents using the Negative Binomial modelregressions as well as detailed diagnostic checks of the models obtained.The data used were collected over a five year period, ranging from 1999 to2003. Several explanatory variables were measured concerning exposure,number of lanes, presence of an additional lane, lane widths, type and widths ofthe road

This document forms the Final Report of the Support study for the ex-post Evaluation of Directive 96/53/EC on Weights and Dimensions (W&D). The W&D Directive regulates the maximum weights and dimensions of vehicles for road transportation of goods and people in the EU. The Directive has been amended several times to promote more energy-efficient and sustainable transport. National derogations are allowed under the Directive, and some member states have taken advantage of this to permit larger capacity vehicles.This study, which ran from May 2022 until April 2023, was awarded by the Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE) of the European Commission to a Consortium led by Ramboll Management Consulting along with Transport & Mobility Leuven, Panteia, LNEC, Apollo Vehicle Safety, and individual subcontracted experts. Methodologically, the study followed the process of a backward-looking Evaluation as set out in the Better Regulation Guidelines. This means that it covers five primary evaluation criteria (relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, coherence, and EU added value. Following a round of qualitative desk research and literature review, stakeholder consultation activities were conducted to gather primary data in relation to each of the evaluation questions. This included a large stakeholder survey, a limited number of targeted follow-up interviews, a workshop, and the analysis of a Public Consultation run by the Commission.One key tool guiding the evaluation process has been formed by the Intervention Logic (figure on the next page). The graphical representation of the tool brings together in a comprehensive way what the main problems (and underlying drivers) are related to the Directive, as well as the general, specific, and operational objectives contained in these. Finally, it shows the inputs used as well as the outputs produced and the results and impacts ultimately brought about by it. The links between specific elements are shown with arrows.This has been used in conjunction with an Evaluation Matrix setting out 17 main Evaluation Questions (EQs), as well as more operational sub-questions, indicators, judgment criteria, data sources, and analytical approach used.

This Impact Assessment accompanied a legislative proposal for the revision of Council Directive 96/53/EC on the maximum dimensions and weights of certain road vehicles in national and international traffic (the Weights and Dimensions Directive). The revision aimed to support the EU

The main objective of the project was the benchmarking of road safety performances and developments of ten Latin American countries.The comparison allowed to identify the similarities and differences between countries, not only on the number of crashes and casualties, but also on the factors, circumstances and events that influence the risk of a crash and the severity of its outcome. The analysis was performed in the following areas

Neste relatório é proposta a estrutura organizacional para realização das contagens tendentes ao recenseamento de tráfego rodoviário na rede de estradas interubanas da Argélia, incluindo o dimensionamento do parque de equipamento de contagem a usar, sua configuração (cntagens permanentes e temporárias), bem como a avaliação dos prazos de realização, em função da dimensão das equipas encarregadas da colocação e exploração dos equipamentos nos trechos da rede rodoviária.

The European Conference of Transport Research Institutes (ECTRI) is an international non

The research reported in this paper is part of the R&D project COST-TRENDs, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. It presents a strategic assessment study of the hinterland connections centred in the Port of Sines, in Portugal, that integrates the core network corridor of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) designated as the Atlantic corridor. The study comprised the analysis of trends of maritime freight costs until 2020 and the assessment of alternative intermodal freight transport options to reduce costs along the multimodal transport chains. The options evaluated focused in the Iberian section of the Atlantic corridor and included the combination of maritime-short sea shipping, maritime-rail, maritime-road and, also, rail-air modes. The study estimated several key performance indicators for each option which aim to provide useful inputs to transport policy.

The literature shows that the development of the railway system in most European countries had a key role both in the evolution of urban systems and regional dynamics. On the other hand, it can be said that railway stations might act as important drivers for promoting sustainable land-use changes, namely of node and place functions which can be consistently balanced.The future Portuguese High-Speed Railway (HSR) network is considered as a major strategic transport scheme at both the Iberian and national levels. Its first stage comprises three routes. Of these, one links the Lisbon Metropolitan Area with the Spanish border of Badajoz, being an integral part of the HSR between both Iberian capitals, whereas the other two form the Atlantic Axis, encompassing a system of cities ranging from Lisbon to Porto, an from the latter point to Braga, Vigo and Coruña, concentrating nearly 80% of the whole Portuguese population, and serving an area generating about 90% of Portugal