AusRAP: The Australian Road Assessment Program

This paper describes how the Australian Road Assessment Program (AusRAP) is designed to raise motorists’ awareness of the need for safe roads. The program is also designed to assist those responsible for road planning and policy by providing information about risk and road safety standards. Currently, reasonably objective and accepted measures exist of what constitutes a safe road user (essentially someone who is responsible and obeys the law) and a safe vehicle (one which rates well under the Australian New Car Assessment Program). AusRAP represents the completion of “safe system” approach to road safety by providing an objective measure of the safety performance of roads. During 2004 and 2005, several elements of performance monitoring of roads supported the AusRAP goals: crash rates were initially calculated for the National Highway System; this analysis was subsequently extended to the AusLink National Network; risk rates have been tracked over time; the types of crashes that occur have been analysed; and a system of inspections which assess the extent to which the features of the road assist in preventing crashes and, in the event that a crash occurs, the extent to which they reduce the severity of the crash, has been successfully piloted. This paper describes the methodology and results of the application of the two AusRAP protocols: Risk Mapping, which assess historical crash rates; and the Road Protection Score (RPS), which assesses the inherent safety of roads. RPS results for the southern state of Victoria are presented, and the implications for infrastructure safety are also discussed.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)

  Washington, DC  United States 
• Authors:
  • Daly, Peter
  • Smith, Greg
  • McInerney, Rob
  • Metcalfe, John
• 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
• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 18p
• Monograph Title: 2006 ITE Annual Meeting and Exhibit Compendium of Technical Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Assessments; Crash injuries; Crash severity; Crashes; Highway safety; Infrastructure; Injury severity; Policy making; Risk analysis; Risk assessment; Safety; Transportation planning
• Identifier Terms: Australian Road Assessment Program (AusRAP)
• Uncontrolled Terms: Crash severity
• Geographic Terms: Australia
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Policy; Safety and Human Factors; I73: Traffic Control; I80: Accident Studies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01036877
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 1933452161
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 15 2006 4:22PM