| Semester 2 Credit Value: | 10 |
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| ECTS Credits: | 5.0 |
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To provide the techniques to analyse data and prepare programmes to reduce accidents by providing a better human/vehicle/road environment. This module also develops understanding of policy and practice in the key areas of road safety management, accident analysis and prevention and road safety audit techniques.
Part A: Road safety Policy
1. To understand the scale and nature of the road accident problem in the UK and how it compares internationally; road safety responsibilities; definition of road accidents; and accident causation.
2. How road safety fits within national and local transport policy.
3. How to manage the safety process, urban and rural road safety management, road safety research and recent road safety developments.
Part B: Accident Investigation and Prevention
1. How road accidents happen and are recorded.
2. Accident data, storing of accident data, the use of accident data, and interpreting accident data.
3. Selecting and prioritising locations for investigation, statistical analysis of accidents, in depth analysis of individual locations, defining the road accident problem, difference between site and route analysis, area wide road safety schemes, options for treating accident problems, monitoring the effectiveness of measures and estimating accident savings and economic benefits.
Part C: Road Safety Audits
1. What is the Road safety Audit procedure, and what are aims and objectives, roles and responsibility; history of road safety audit, road safety audit and design standards, road safety audit tasks, various stages of safety audits; common identifiable problems.
2. How to structure a road safety audit report, identify common problems.
3. Case studies and site visit; what to look for on site visits
Students will become aware of key issues in road safety policy, techniques for accident analysis and prevention and road safety audit procedures.
To be able to help in the preparation of Road Safety plans.
To be able to contribute to the design of road safety schemes.
To be able to evaluate schemes by cost/benefit analysis
To contribute to educational and publicity material relating to road safety.
| Graduate Skills Framework Applicable: | Yes |
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| Category | Activity | Number | Length | Student Hours | Comment |
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| Guided Independent Study | Assessment preparation and completion | 24 | 1:00 | 24:00 | Revision for exam |
| Guided Independent Study | Assessment preparation and completion | 1 | 18:00 | 18:00 | Group based coursework |
| Guided Independent Study | Assessment preparation and completion | 1 | 2:00 | 2:00 | Exam |
| Scheduled Learning And Teaching Activities | Lecture | 24 | 1:00 | 24:00 | N/A |
| Scheduled Learning And Teaching Activities | Practical | 2 | 3:00 | 6:00 | In-class exercises |
| Scheduled Learning And Teaching Activities | Fieldwork | 4 | 1:00 | 4:00 | Walking audit |
| Guided Independent Study | Independent study | 1 | 22:00 | 22:00 | Includes background reading and reading lecture notes for a full understanding of material. |
| Total | 100:00 |
Specialist knowledge, understanding and skills are primarily imparted via lectures, supported by practical group work, case studies and site visits. Students are encouraged and expected to learn through independent reading and reflection which is supported by an extensive list of relevant literature. Observations and discussions during the site visit to a road safety scheme helps reinforce the lecture and reading material.
The format of resits will be determined by the Board of Examiners
| Description | Length | Semester | When Set | Percentage | Comment |
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| Written Examination | 120 | 2 | A | 70 | Unseen written exam |
| Description | Semester | When Set | Percentage | Comment |
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| Written exercise | 2 | M | 30 | A single piece of group-based coursework to develop a road safety plan (approx 15-20 pages plus relevant appendices) |
The specialist skills, knowledge and understanding imparted during this module are assessed by means of an unseen written exam and a single item of group coursework (proposing road safety measures at an identifiable casualty hotspot). The examination paper employs a range of approaches in order to accurately assess student abilities. These may include essay, calculation, data interpretation and multi-part questions.
Offered as a block module 3x2 days with external delegates.
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