This report contains a general explanation of road safety audits including a description of the audits as well as methods and reasons for conducting them. The report also contains a proposal for an audit protocol which would describe the various steps to be followed by the road authority and the auditor. This protocol would form the basis for actually applying the auditing tool. The report provides a general overview of the tasks of the auditor. A more detailed elaboration of the contents of the auditing tasks would be provided in the form of a course for those who wish to qualify as an auditor. The protocol presented here is largely based on the guidelines and experiences of countries where audits have been implemented for some time now such as Great Britain, Denmark, Australia and New Zealand. An attempt is made to adapt the protocol as closely as possible to the Dutch situation. A certain amount of flexibility will have to be used in applying the protocol. The near future should be seen as a test period in which experience can be obtained in using the tool in The Netherlands. (A)
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