Safer Roads Investment Plans for 14 Countries in South East Europe

This paper reports on Star Rating the safety of roads and Safer Roads Investment Plans of selected countermeasures and their BCRs (benefit cost ratios) from a road survey of 19,000km of major roads in South East Europe – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Greece, Hungary, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine. The authors are the technical teams and the Project Partners who hosted training, including Lead Partner, Make Roads Safe Hellas. The SENSoR project was funded by the South East Europe Transnational Cooperation Programme, co-funded by the European Union and uses iRAP protocols. Typically 50-70% of roads in the individual countries surveyed score 1- or 2-star on a 5-point scale (the least safe) for vehicle occupant safety and even less well for vulnerable road users. The programme has identified the potential location, cost and savings involved in implementing countermeasures. Those with greatest injury-reducing benefits are: barriers, shoulder treatment, surface repair and markings, improved pedestrians facilities and safer intersections. Programme BCRs are typically about 5-6, with economically justified carriageway upgrading often costing around EUR100-200k per carriageway kilometre, but considerably less in some countries. EUR1,600m investment may save around 114,000 fatal and serious injuries over 20 years.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission of the World Road Association – PIARC.
• Corporate Authors:

  World Road Association (PIARC)

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• Authors:
  • Lawson, S D
  • Bellos, E
  • Djordjevic, O
  • Efstathiadis, S
  • Androulidakis, M
  • Maly, M
  • Landa, J
  • Triska, L
  • Sevrovic, M
  • Jovanovic, B
  • Kostanjsek, J
  • Marsetic, R
  • Galovic, N
  • Sipos, T
  • Kiss, A
  • Hollo, P
  • Juck, M
• Conference:
  • 25th World Road Congress
  • Location: Seoul , Korea, South
  • Date: 2015-11-3 to 2015-11-7
• Publication Date: 2015

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 16p
• Monograph Title: Proceedings of the 25th World Road Congress - Seoul 2015: Roads and Mobility - Creating New Value from Transport

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Barriers (Roads); Benefit cost analysis; Countermeasures; Highway safety; Investments; Road shoulders
• Geographic Terms: Albania; Bosnia and Hercegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece; Hungary; Macedonia (Republic); Moldova; Montenegro; Romania; Serbia; Slovakia; Slovenia; Southeast Europe; Ukraine
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01679903
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9782840604235
• Report/Paper Numbers: 0525
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 31 2018 1:43PM