One aim of this research project is to provide a freely accessible database for road authorities responsible for secondary roads, containing the Best Practice Safety Information Expert System. As a result SEROES has been developed. SEROES the Secondary Roads Expert System is a web-based tool, freely accessible for everybody which comprises the possibility to be enlarged. In that context best practice information about road safety improvement from the EUmember states and a worldwide background has been collected, examined and synthesised. Building on that framework and based on the Handbook of Road Safety Measures by Elvik & Vaa the Best Practice Safety Information Expert System SEROES has been developed and implemented. The application is structured into various menus for users and an additional menu for administrators. SEROES is a tool with low accident and road data requirements. The user only needs the incident site, accident type and the cause of the accident as input describing that way an existing road safety problem. Then the application offers several solutions, a cost-range and information about the effect for each of the provided measures. For a better understanding a user manual has been developed. In a further step SEROES has been demonstrated together with the DST (Decision Support Safety Tool) (WP 11 and 12) in three countries: Turkey, Poland and the Netherlands. The demonstration of SEROES was integrated in the demonstration programme of the DST in WP12. It was carried out using a questionnaire (annex 1). The questionnaires have been evaluated and a summary of the comments and suggestions of the users has been elaborated. Even if after the demonstration and several practical tests some fields of improvement have been identified, it can be said that by and large the users' impression of SEROES was positive. (Author/publisher)
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