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Development of methodology to analyze road landscape of accident black-spots; a case study with reference to southern expressway, Sri Lanka.

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dc.contributor.author Dharmasena, SR
dc.contributor.author Edirisooriya arachchige, TS
dc.date.accessioned 2021-04-05T06:08:50Z
dc.date.available 2021-04-05T06:08:50Z
dc.date.issued 2017
dc.identifier.uri http://dl.lib.uom.lk/handle/123/16399
dc.description.abstract Driving is an action of humans, which allows him/her motion through space from place to place. The road landscape creates the character and the spatial quality, which is vital to decide the driving safe. ‘Southern Expressway’, which was introduced recently, allowed people to move quickly from Western to Southern destinations of Sri Lanka and time to time accidents were also recorded. So, the spatial qualities of the existing road landscape might have impacted on the accidents happened on Southern Highway from its initiation. Identification of accident prone areas (Black-Spots) is a vital factor of road safety management process. The study focused on to develop a methodology to analyze road landscape with using a visual analysis in an identified Black-Spots in Southern Highway. Data is collected and analyzed as two phases; one is from recorded accidents data and other from live recording of the expressway driving stretch. In this study highlighted that the possibilities of analyze identified ‘Black-spots’ by using Photographic analysis method. In conclusion, the study emphasizes that the identified methodology to analyze road landscape can be developed up to more advanced level to identify driving behaviour related Black-Spots and to take mitigatory actions. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.subject Road safety en_US
dc.subject Black-Spot en_US
dc.subject Driving behavior en_US
dc.subject Road landscape en_US
dc.title Development of methodology to analyze road landscape of accident black-spots; a case study with reference to southern expressway, Sri Lanka. en_US
dc.type Conference-Full-text en_US
dc.identifier.faculty Architecture en_US
dc.identifier.department Department of Architecture en_US
dc.identifier.year 2017 en_US
dc.identifier.place Colombo en_US
dc.identifier.pgnos 271-281p. en_US
dc.identifier.proceeding 10thInternational Conference of Faculty of Architecture Research Unit (FARU – 2017)
dc.identifier.email shameen1990@gmail.com en_US


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