Analysis of conflict situations in road traffic on roundabouts

Abstract

The wrong behaviour of road traffic participants is a permanently discussed issue in many countries with advanced road transport. Such behaviour does not always result in traffic accident, but only in restriction or danger to the culprit or other participants. For monitoring the behavioural problems it is possible to apply the video-analysis of the conflict situations. The methodology of the conflict situations monitoring with the video-apparatus application is described in the paper presented. There are also results of the conflict situations analysis on the selected roundabouts in the Czech Republic. The paper refers to the suitability of the conflict situations video-analysis application not only for monitoring the wrong behaviour of drivers and other road traffic participants, but also for monitoring the inappropriately designed building elements (this hypothesis has been confirmed by the results of research, which are shown in this paper).