This paper shows a simple methodology to implement road safety audit for school areas, that already exist. Road safety audit is being used since 1980's in Great Britain, and now is become more popular around the world. The intention is show how simple could be an audit and the benefits that could bring to society. The principals steps are composed by the technician approach and the study of the neighborhood, which gives the basis to the diagnose elaboration. The technician approach involves their background and experience, and an efficient knowledge of the site by it details (physical and in different periods of day). Moreover, the technician needs to obtain maximum information about characteristics from the road, school, drivers, parents and students. Contact with the director of school is important, because is the person who better know the problem, and could give a good clue how to solve it. Site visits are the most important steps for diagnose existing problems. Elaboration of sketch contains all physical and operation elements, to show the real situation, it will help to detection of hazard locations. This article presents two checklists, the first one could be used to check the proper design of the school areas, the second one is used to check the condition of intersections near to school, and could be used as supplementary analysis to the first checklist. For the covering abstract see ITRD E137120.
Samenvatting