Road Safety Audit is a systematic procedure which incorporates traffic safety knowledge into the road planning and design process with the purpose of preventing traffic accidents. The concept of Road Safety Audit used in different countries as well as their level of experience differs considerably. The World Road Association (PIARC) Committee 13 on Road Safety has focuses on the subject. Information on current practice and experiences in different member states have been collected, analyses and discussed by the C13-WG3-members. The results of this work have been summarised in Chapter 1 - 8. The content of Chapter 9 - 12 is four summaries of the national experiences in Denmark, New Zealand, France and USA. The content of the 13 chapters was presented at the C13-session about Road Safety Audit at the World Road Congress in Kuala Lumpur in October 1999. The last chapter (Chapter 13) is a summary of the Congress session including the discussion. (Author/publisher)
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