Promoting cost effective road safety improvement strategies for rural roads in New Zealand
In 2010 the New Zealand Government published Safer Journeys. This is the guiding document for road safety over the next decade, and introduced the Safe System Approach to New Zealand. One of the five high priority areas in Safer Journeys relates to Safer Road and Roadsides and includes a requirement to focus efforts on high risk rural roads and a first action being the development of an industry guide for the identification and treatment of high risk rural roads. This paper explores the background to the guide, the contents of the guide, including the development of a categorisation system based on personal and collective crash risk. The use of the guide is then discussed, focussing on the categorisation of road sections/corridors, and how this categorisation assists practitioners and policy makers to broadly determine the appropriate road safety management strategy for road corridors.
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Authors:
- Tate, F
- Brodie, C
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- Publication Date: 2012-10
Language
- English
Media Info
- Pagination: 10p
- Monograph Title: Reducing the cost of road safety: Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference 2012, 4-6 October 2012, Wellington, New Zealand
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Decision support systems; Highway operations; Highway safety; Highways; Policy; Rural areas; Rural highways; Standardization; Traffic safety
- Uncontrolled Terms: Safe systems (roads)
- Geographic Terms: New Zealand
- ATRI Terms: Crash countermeasure; Decision support; Road management; Road safety; Rural road; Standardization
- ITRD Terms: 1661: Accident prevention; 2248: Decision process
- Subject Areas: Highways; Policy; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01481695
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: ARRB
- Files: ITRD, ATRI
- Created Date: May 21 2013 10:42AM