This Austroads funded research is designed to aid policy makers and practitioners in assessing risk and prioritising treatment on their roads. This paper will provide an update on recent research, including: database development (collection of data from all Australasian jurisdictions combining crash data, network information and traffic data); investigation of risk reduction for various safety treatments in different environments; the implications for varying design standards on risk; development of a crash monitoring database for use by all Australasian authorities; use of crash cost as an indication of severity in different road environments; indepth investigation of rural head-on and rural intersection crashes; safety implications of road deterioration; and investigation of crash risk migration. The paper discusses practical use of this information by policy makers and practitioners in the form of the Road Safety Risk Manager software. It also covers proposals for future research in the area of risk reduction, including network based approaches. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E214057. Printed volume contains peer-reviewed papers. CD-ROM contains submitted papers.
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