Seminars on Road Safety

Code:

MESHO201

Acronym:

SSV

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Safety and Hygiene Engineering

Instance: 2012/2013 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	http://moodle.fe.up.pt/1011/course/view.php?id=505
Responsible unit:	Mining Engineering Department
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Occupational Safety and Hygiene Engineering

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MESHO	35	Plano de estudos oficial a partir de 2007/08	1	-	6	56	162

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

• Introduction of the concept of road security  and development of students' skills to identify risk factors in general and in specific cases, and improve its ability to define and propose measures and solutions that reduce the risk of road accidents. • Identify key risk factors and study, analyze and propose solutions; • Identify situations and perform risk analysis on the ground; • Analyze prevention measures, including education and training for road safety and defensive driving.

Learning outcomes and competences

It is expected that in this discipline  the students acquire a greater sensitivity for the Road accident prevention. This course will warn some successful measures to prevent accidents as well as instruct students for detecting situations potentiate the risk of accidents.

Working method

Presencial

Program

• Road accidents: statistical data and related institutions.


• The legislation, national and European level, concerning the accident  prevention or the  consequences. Influence of legislation, jurisprudence and police surveillance in road accidents.


• Presentation of some concrete examples of legislation and accidents prevention campaings.


• Introduction to Biomechanics and Traumatology; enormous importance of speed and deceleration on the accidents consequences.


• The vehicle and its systems for active and passive safety.


• Road Safety factors: - The driver and his behavior; - planning, design, track maintenance, traffic signs and traffic control systems;


• Physical consequences, and economic psychology of accidents;


• Study and presentation of concrete cases of errors in the roads  design of and signaling and presentaion of proposals for improvement.


• Presentation of some concrete cases and the methodologies used to solve them.

Mandatory literature

Lawrence S. Nordhoff; Motor vehicule collision injuries. ISBN: 0-7637-3335-0
ed. by Alan M. Nahum, John W. Melvin; Accidental injury. ISBN: 978-0-387-98820-7
Ronald L. Huston; Principles of biomechanics. ISBN: 978-0-8493-3494-8
Kai-Uwe Schmitt...[et al.]; Trauma biomechanics. ISBN: 978-3-540-73872-5
ed, by Donald R. Peterson. Joseph D. Bronzíno; Biomechanics. ISBN: 0-8493-8534-2
Duane Knudson; Fundamentals of biomechanics. ISBN: 978-0-387-49311-4

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lectures on biomechanics, physics of accidents, legislation on liability and accident prevention, road marking, tracing of routes and in the prevention of accidents in the road environment, pri-urban and urban areas.

Conferences and power point presentations on the topics of the seminars and real cases, its causes and consequences.

Study of actual track, signaling and accidents and concrete proposals by students, in order to reduce risks and prevent accidents.

Performing work groups (3 or 4 students) about various topics addressed in the course.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Work Group	Defesa pública de dissertação, de relatório de projeto ou estágio, ou de tese	20,00	50,00	2013-05-28
exam	Exame	2,00	50,00	2013-05-21
	Total:	-	100,00

Eligibility for exams

According to the rules of the Faculty of Engineering students generally must attend 75% of classes. In specific cases, the worker-students can be aproved without attending classes, if they carry out the field work and present themselves for examination.

Calculation formula of final grade

Group work, presentation and discussion: 50%: The work group may be: a) field work, analysis of cases, or signaling problems b) study of subjects about Road Safety c) study and analysis of scientific articles or textbooks, books or book chapters. Exame: 50%

 

Work group 50% + Exame 50%

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

According to Feup regulations

Classification improvement

By exam or new work group