The Analysis of Rural Road Safety and Its Strategies

This paper presents the main features of traffic accidents on rural roads by detailed statistical analysis of traffic accidents, modes of vehicles, time, driver behaviors and other related factors about traffic accidents occurred on Huantai County rural roads from 2005 to 2007. The root causes of accidents were obtained by applying traffic engineering principles to the current situation of rural road construction and transport development. This paper proposed strategies to reduce deaths and injuries resulting from traffic accidents on rural roads from the aspects of traffic management system, safety education, safe facilities, vehicle management, etc., which will be applied to the field of traffic safety management on rural roads.