“ERA-NET ROAD — Coordination and Implementation of Road Research in Europe” was a Coordination Action funded by the 6th Framework Programme of the EC. The partners in ERA-NET ROAD (ENR) were United Kingdom, Finland, Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Norway, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, Slovenia and Denmark (http://www.road-era.net). Within the framework of ENR this joint research project was initiated. The project aims at developing suitable road safety engineering evaluation tools as anticipated by the ERANET Programme "Safety at the Heart of Road Design" (2009) and furthermore those of the Directive for Road Infrastructure Safety Management (2008). These evaluation tools allow the easy identification of both unsafe (from accidents or related indicators) and potentially unsafe (from design and other criteria) locations in a road network. With such evaluation tools estimates of potential benefits at the local and the network level can be calculated and potential effects on aspects such as driver behaviour can be estimated. Such tools empower road authorities to improve their decision making and to implement (ameliorative) measures to improve the road safety situation on the roads. RISMET culminates in a set of easy to use guidelines and codes of practice for the development and use of comprehensive road safety engineering evaluation tools, with a specific focus on APMs. These systems based tools will consider the relationship between road design, road user behaviour, traffic and road safety. A guideline and data specification providing the minimum requirements for data collecting and recording will be included. The first part of this report (Chapter 4) is a literature review on the relationships between accident data, roadway data and traffic data. Chapter 5 of this report provides a detailed description of state-of-the-art databases and information systems; chapter 6 gives an overview of road and traffic data in the EU based on a survey among ten countries. (Author/publisher)
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