How to reduce accidents on the highway that connects Borgo Maggiore to Dogana? This is the question answered by the thesis with which 23-year-old Riccardo Savegnago today obtained his Bachelor's degree in Management Engineering at the University of the Republic of San Marino. Basing his analysis on the number and characteristics of road accidents recorded in the republic from 2008 to 2015, the student identified the most dangerous areas and proposed a series of solutions involving, among other things, advanced technological tools capable of communicating between They.
On the basis of a collaboration with the San Marino start-up AlphaLabs, active among other things in the Urban Security sector, Savegnago then analyzed areas such as that of via 3 settembre, in Dogana, where 19 accidents were recorded near a particular pedestrian crossing and the intersection with via Cesare Cantù. To reduce the risks, the installation of "sensors capable of detecting the speed and, if it is too high, signaling it to the driver via a display" is proposed. Or the adoption of "a series of proximity sensors" that "detect the pedestrian about to cross" and then "activate flashing lights that warn vehicles" to slow them down, reads the text of the degree thesis.
Another critical point is that of via 5 February, in Domagnano, where over 30 accidents have been concentrated in a given stretch, often due to high speed. Among the solutions therefore appears the adoption of "a speed sensor" in charge of monitoring vehicles and activating "a warning screen that warns them to slow down if they are exceeding the imposed limits". To this can be added "environmental sensors capable of monitoring humidity and temperature levels in order to identify the possible presence of ice on the road section and signal it to users via the same display". Furthermore, to signal the presence of dangerous curves present, the application of "a series of flashing lights which switch on in sequence", controlled "by a proximity sensor which switches them on only when it detects approaching machines", is proposed. The sensor, reads the thesis whose speaker was the San Marino professor Pietro Renzi, "would bring advantages in terms of energy saving and maintenance, since using the lights only when necessary increases their useful life and consequently reduces interventions necessary for repair and replacement".
The data on road accidents on which the study is based, collected by the Gendarmerie and the Civil Police, then processed by the Health Authority and the IT, Technology, Data and Statistics Office, do not concern the total number of episodes that occurred, but those in which c 'at least one was injured. In this regard, it should be noted that in the four-year period 2008 - 2011 "633 accidents, 830 injured and 5 dead" were recorded, while "in the four-year period 2012 - 2015 541 accidents were recorded in San Marino, causing 693 injured and 6 dead". In this period, among the main causes of accidents, there are "failure to comply with stop signs or precedence signals (27,7%), excess speed (20,8%) and distracted driving (13,9% )". 8,3% of the accidents had as cause "the alteration of the psycho-physical state of the driver". About a quarter of traffic accidents occurred on the freeway.