This paper concerns the use of road audit in maintaining safety throughout the life of a road. Different basic road designs incorporate different levels of safety. A process for assessing the relative safety performance of European roads is being developed by the UK Transport Research Laboratory, called the European Road Assessment Programme (EuroRAP). The objectives are to establish systematic testing of risk and to ensure that assessment of risk lies at the heart of strategic decisions. Areas considered include injury mitigation, analysis of accident types, road design elements relevant to safety, roadside protection and road cross-sections; intersections; provision for pedestrians and cyclists; and the road protection score, based on information obtained from inspection drives. The road protection score should be linked to traffic speed. For the covering abstract see ITRD E118917.
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