CETE

The SnowFlake Road Safety Project

The SnowFlake Road Safety Project is a research effort being organized by the Czech CDV Research Institute, Inc, (CDV) located in the city of Brno in the Czech Republic. This is a joint effort carried out in partnership with the Rhode Island Department of Transportation, the University of Rhode Island with the facilitation of the FHWA Office of International Programs’ Central European Technology Exchange Program.

Tiny Smart Car used as a police Vehicle in the City of Prague, Czech Republic

A great amount of work has recently been done in Europe in the area of improving road safety. This effort resulted in a significant decrease of traffic accidents. The best-known work among the countries is the Sunflower and the Sunflower+6 projects identifying national differences in the development of road fatality risks. The SnowFlake study proposed to identify principles, procedures, and good practices of the above mentioned Sunflower projects and provide an opportunity to compare how Rhode Island has approached their safety issues with methods employed by different European countries as well as the impact these different approaches have had on safety development.

Red color contrasting pavement used for delineation of a bicycle lane thru a busy intersection in Brno, Czech Republic