Università Roma Tre

Road Safety and Severe Hazards is a course of the Master Degree in Road Infrastructures and Transport. This degree aims at training a highly professional figure in civil engineering with specific knowledge and skills in road infrastructures design and management and transportation issues.
Within this degree, Road Safety and Severe Hazards is aimed at providing students with the knowledge and understanding of the management of road infrastructures safety by means of an interdisciplinary approach (safe system approach) that tackle road safety issues using several measures to improve drivers behaviour, road design and maintenance and vehicle safety. Students will be familiar with road safety plans and programs, protocols and procedure for develop road safety inspections and audit in accordance with international and national actual rules and regulations in this field.
At the end of the course the students will be able to: 1) identify the highest risk sites for a priority of interventions in the road network; 2) make a road safety inspection in urban environment; 3) write a report of the road safety inspection developed; 4) identify the most critical risk factors of a road sites using crash data (reactive approach) or on site survey (pro-active approach) and select the most effective safety countermeasures able to improve the safety level of the site.