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 report presents a brief summary of the RANKERS Conference that was held on June 27th 2007 in Budapest within the Road Safety Engineering EU — Hungary Seminar co-organised between the European Road Federation and the European Commission Technical Assistant Information Exchange Unit (TAIEX). The conference had the objective to present to road infrastructure industry, research community and road administrations their latest results at that date. Moreover, the discussions held at the end of the presentations helped RANKERS partners to introduce some new views into our activities, mainly for the Road Safety Index. The main topics that were presented from the RANKERS consortium were as follows: • The Road Safety Index. • The Catalogue of Recommendations. • The Human Factor experiments methodology and preliminary results. • The Infrastructure field tests on road geometry influence on traffic accidents. (Author/publisher) This document is available at http://www.rankers-project.com/
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