While guidelines, processes and recommendations for designing motorways, highwaysand interurban roads are mostly very well structured, organised and known all over theworld there is a lack of knowledge concerning urban roads. On the background of severalaccidents in urban roads the analyse of accident risks have to be improved especially forurban roads. The most deficiencies in urban roads are related to Vulnerable Road Users(VRU). For road safety on urban roads it is important to consider the sight distance (intervisibility)between individual motorized and non motorized traffic. Especially when choosingthe number and character of the parking facilities, the intervisibility between vehiclesand pedestrians/bicyclists is to guarantee at crossroads, T junctions, access roads andpedestrian crossings. Obstructions of sight prevent the cognition of conflict situations insufficient time. In this case the situation on all continents is still comparable to urban Europeanroads. On the other hand big obstacles especially at sidewalks could be recognisedmuch more often in developing countries. In Egypt for example serious deficiencies oncharacteristics such as mixed functions crossing small villages and towns with severeproblems for vulnerable road users, dangerous urban road sections with an uncoordinatedor inconsistent alignment which causes high speed in urban areas and serious safety deficienciesfor vulnerable road users in general can be found.
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