Rolling Barriers: Emerging Concept to Reduce Road Accidents: An Indian Perspective

Abstract

The latest emerging technologies for road safety focuses on finding ways to avoid or minimize road accidents to road users with special concern by reducing the causes of road accidents. As depicted by data of certain advanced countries like Korea, Malaysia, Australia, United States of America, the major number of accidents causing death was very high during a previous couple of years due to the increased number of vehicles on road, which is getting unmanageable. However, Urethane Rollers invented in Korea has served to re-direct the uncontrolled moving vehicles and to balance it again causing reduction of accidents. In this paper, a study is carried out to explain its need in India perspective for using "Rolling Barriers" (RB) which has minimized the accidents rate in the above-mentioned countries. Rolling barriers provides cushioning effect during a crash, reduces the high-speed effect, constitutes material resilience with stiffness and have other performance characteristics that reduce injury to occupants and damage to the vehicle. The roller barriers are extremely effective and its implementation has given signified results in reducing the road accidents at flat roads, curved roads sections, ramps, medians, entrances/exit ramps in the parking garage etc. steep curved roads as in the mountainous terrain.