Road safety manual: a manual for practitioners and decision makers on implementing safe system infrastructure

The new Road Safety Manual (RSM) is designed to help countries at every stage of infrastructure development to fulfill road safety objectives. It is aligned with key pillars for the United Nationals Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020: Pillar 1: Road Safety Management; Pillar 2: Safer Roads and Mobility; Pillar 4: Safer Road Users. This comprehensive resource builds on the broad range of knowledge and experience provided by PIARC in the first edition. It includes new thinking on road safety and offers a clear argument on why adopting a Safe System approach is crucial for your country. The Safe System approach aims for a more forgiving road system that takes human fallibility and vulnerability into account. Under the Safe System approach, everyone (public agencies, automobile manufacturers, road users, enforcement officials, and others) must share the responsibility for road safety outcomes. The manual is split into three parts and can be downloaded in chapters. Key principles for each of the topics are included and discussed in the sections, with case studies and links to detailed technical material and other references.

• Record URL:
  • http://roadsafety.piarc.org/en
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Supersedes 1st ed, 2004 (record no. 0506AR133E)
• Corporate Authors:

  World Road Association (PIARC). Technical Committee on Rural Roads and Earthworks (D.4)

  Paris,   France 
• Authors:
  • Turner, B
  • Breen, J
  • Howard, E
• Publication Date: 2015

Language

• English

Media Info

• Edition: 2nd ed
• Pagination: various files

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Highway design; Highway safety; Infrastructure; Policy; Strategic planning; Traffic safety
• Uncontrolled Terms: Safe systems (road users); Safe systems (roads)
• ATRI Terms: Crash countermeasure; Infrastructure; Injury prevention; Policy; Road design; Road safety; Strategic planning
• Subject Areas: Highways; Policy;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01580594
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ATRI
• Created Date: Nov 17 2015 10:05AM