Documentation of Road Safety Deficits.

While road safety audits for interurban roads are extensively implementedin Germany and in many other countries there is a lack of knowledge concerning the needs for training urban road auditors and the safety deficits of urban roads. Therefore audits were analysed which were made at the firsttraining to the Road Safety Auditor for urban roads and crosstown links at the University of Wuppertal. The audits were evaluated with regard to the frequency of ascertained safety deficiencies in the planning. In 25 plans altogether 625 deficiencies have been found. 65% of the safety deficiencies are violations of the road guidelines. Serious consequences could not be excluded at 54% of the deficiencies. Urban planning needs to be improved and in principle should come under scrutiny of a safety audit. For the covering abstract see ITRD E139491.