Best Practice Guidelines on Road Safety Inspection

The European Commission announced to take concrete action on road infrastructure safety in the White Paper on Future European Transport Policy for 2010 (European Commission 2001) and again in its Communication on an European Road Safety Action Program on the 2nd June 2003 (European Commission 2003). In order to reach the self imposed objective of halving the number of fatalities on European roads by 2010 (from more than 50,000 in 2001 to 25,000), several instruments concerning road infrastructure safety were proposed: Road Safety Impact Assessment (RIA), Road Safety Audit (RSA), Network Safety Management (Black Spot Treatment and Network Safety Analysis) and Road Safety Inspection (RSI) make sure that safety is integrated in all phases of road planning, design and operation of road infrastructure. The following paper deals with RSI only and gives examples and experiences (Best Practice) with this instrument in European states where Road Safety Inspections have been introduced for several years.

• Corporate Authors:

  World Road Association (PIARC)

  La Grande Arche, Paroi Nord, Niveau 5
  F-92055 La Defense Cedex,   France 
• Authors:
  • Stefan, C
  • Elvik, R
• Conference:
  • Choice for Sustainable Development. Pre-Proceedings of the 23rd PIARRC World Road Congress
  • Location: Paris , France
  • Date: 2007-9-17 to 2007-9-21
• Publication Date: 2007

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 15p
• Monograph Title: The Choice for Sustainable Development. Pre-Proceedings of the 23rd PIARC World Road Congress

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Best practices; Fatalities; Guidelines; High risk locations; Inspection; Safety audits; Safety management; Traffic safety
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01081120
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 26 2007 9:54AM