Traffic safety
The traffic safety beings is a scope of traffic engineering and is used to ensure the safety in transportation (hazard and accident-free traffic flow). In traffic safety, special instruments and facilities (such as systems and / or regulations, supervisory authorities, signaling, laws and regulations) and methods (such as a risk analysis and vulnerability assessment), which can be designed differently depending on the requirements of the underlying traffic systems, are used .
Sub-areas
The following sub-areas of road safety can be distinguished:
- Road safety ,
- Railway safety ,
- Shipping safety ,
- Aviation safety ,
- Messaging security.
tasks
The tasks of traffic safety primarily include the defense against dangers in order to ensure the safety and ease of traffic ( operational safety ). In addition, the measures are intended to protect against dangers emanating from the transport system and prevent harmful environmental impacts.