Rail Traffic Vehicular and Pedestrian Accidents at At-Grade Intersections, Baltimore, Maryland

This paper describes how a Road safety audit (RSA) is a formal procedure that is used for assessing accident potential and safety performance for an existing and/or future roadway or transportation facility. Its systematic application can also ensure that a growing awareness of good road safety principles is achieved throughout planning, design, construction and operations of the roadway. RSA is different from the typical reviews for project planning and highway design projects. The RSA review process consists of a multidisciplinary team of senior professionals representing offices from highway planning, highway and bridge design, traffic engineering, operations and construction, human factors, systems engineering, law enforcement, risk assessment, community traffic safety coordinators and others. This team is independent of anyone who is part of the planning and design team. The team’s focus is on safety enhancements and not on compliance to highway design standards, alignments and/ or value engineering. Therefore, there is a distinct difference between the typical design reviews and the safety audit reviews. Road safety audit reviews focus on means to make roadways safer, even if standards are to be exceeded. The process takes into consideration the experience of a multi-disciplinary team of experts to address issues that aren’t always emphasized in design. These issues include, but not limited to, accessibility by multi-modes of transportation, enforcement, human factors, construction and maintenance, work zone safety, risk assessment, traffic safety, etc. The primary objective of a road safety audit is to ensure that all new and existing roads operate as safely as practical. This means that safety should be considered throughout the whole preparation and construction of any project.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • The Table of Contents on the CD-ROM lists the title of the paper as “Applying the Road Safety Audit Review Method to Mitigate Light Rail Traffic Vehicular and Pedestrian Accidents at At-Grade Intersections”.
• Corporate Authors:

  Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)

  Washington, DC  United States 
• Authors:
  • Sabra, Ziad A
  • Sulibhavi, Govind
• Conference:
  • 2006 ITE Annual Meeting and Exhibit Compendium of Technical Papers
  • Location: Milwaukee WI, United States
  • Date: 2006-8-6 to 2006-8-9
• Publication Date: 2006

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Monograph Title: 2006 ITE Annual Meeting and Exhibit Compendium of Technical Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; At grade intersections; Crash analysis; Crash risk forecasting; Highway design; Highway operations; Highway planning; Highway safety; Multimodal transportation; Pedestrian safety; Risk assessment; Safety audits; Traffic engineering; Traffic safety; Transportation planning
• Geographic Terms: Baltimore (Maryland)
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure; I73: Traffic Control; I80: Accident Studies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01036886
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 1933452161
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 15 2006 4:22PM