The overall objective of RANKERS is to develop new comprehensive, scientific – based and practical guidelines or recommendations for road infrastructure safety to enable optimal cost – effective decisions by road authorities in their efforts to promote sustainable safer roads and eradicate dangerous road sections. This deliverable presents the Road Safety Index, the methodology to be applied and the results of an application performed with a real road section. The report is structured as follows: • Chapter 2 presents the objectives of the RSI and an overview of the methodology followed and the structure of the index. It also provides some examples of the potential results and applications of the index. • Chapter 3 is aimed at presenting how the RSI evaluates each road infrastructure topic (Road alignment, roadside, junctions, pavement, overtaking and road layout consistency). • Chapter 4 gives an overview on how to calculate the marks and average marks for each road infrastructure topic and also for each road section. • In Chapter 5 it is presented the main results of the application of the RSI to a real road section within the regional road network of Castilla y León. • The main difficulties found when developing the RSI and future research needs for the improvement of the index are described in Chapter 6. • Finally, Chapter 7 gives a summary of the main conclusions of the activities performed to develop the RSI. (Author/publisher) This document is available at http://www.rankers-project.com/
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