ADAPTING ROAD SAFETY AUDITS TO LOCAL RURAL ROADS

Many rural governments do not have an effective safety improvement program for their roads, yet crash rates are significantly higher on rural roads than on urban, state, and federal roads. Smaller agencies seldom have the financial resources or expertise to provide comprehensive roadway safety improvement programs and usually rely on input from the public, governing bodies, employees, and analysis of accident records. The result is a reactive program that leaves many road safety issues unnoticed and unimproved. A road safety audit is a proactive and comprehensive approach to identifying roadway safety deficiencies. This paper provides a practical means of identifying roadway safety deficiencies by developing and testing a road safety audit program for existing rural local roads.

• Record URL:
  https://www.ugpti.org/resources/reports/details.php?id=338
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• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/35616
• Corporate Authors:

  Mountain-Plains Consortium

  North Dakota State University
  Fargo, ND  United States  58108
• Authors:
  • Tate III, Joseph
  • Wilson, E M
• Publication Date: 1998-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 116 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crashes; Highway safety; Improvements; Rural highways; Safety audits; Traffic crashes
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00757909
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: MPC Report No. 98-96B, MPC-144
• Files: NTL, TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Dec 29 1998 12:00AM