known ignorances

Enrique Miralles Olivar
Technical director. Spanish Road Association (AEC)

ABSTRACT:

Road safety is a field of work and interdisciplinary study, which involved aspects related to human factor, vehicle and infrastructure. In all these fields of knowledge they have made significant progress over the past decades; however there are still questions to which researchers and practitioners must respond in the coming years. This article provides an overview of some of the certainties and uncertainties that characterize today road safety.

KEYWORDS:

Road Safety, Risk, Asymptote, Accident, Knowledge.