Road Safety Management: Road Safety Audit Flashcards
1
Q
What are the approx percentages for contributing factors in road crashes?
A
Human: 90%
Road: 30%
Vehicle: 10%
2
Q
What is the Safe System framework?
A
- Designing, constructing and maintaining a road system so that forces on the human body generated in crashes are generally less than those resulting in fatal or debilitating injury
- Safer road user behaviour, safer speeds, safer roads, safer vehicles
3
Q
What is Vision Zero?
A
No loss of life is acceptable.
Road systems should minimise opportunities for errors and harm
4
Q
What is a road safety audit?
A
A formal examination of a existing or future road or traffic project by an independent team of trained specialists, assesses the crash potential and safety performance of a roadway project and reports on potential safety problems
5
Q
Road safety audits are…
A
- Breaking the crash chain
- Road safety prevention
- Part of road safety strategy
- Mainstream process
6
Q
Road safety audits are not…
A
- Rating or ranking a project
- Checking for compliance to standards
- Crash investigation
- Redesign
- Informal process
7
Q
What is risk equal to
A
Risk=ProbabilityExposureOutcome
8
Q
What are the purpose of Road Safety Audits?
A
- Minimise the risk and severity of crashes
- Ensure consideration of measures to eliminate or reduce problems
- Need for costly remedial work is reduced (identify deficiencies before they are built)
- Promote safe design practices by planners, designers and traffic engineers
9
Q
When should an audit be done?
A
5 stages:
- Feasibility stage
- Preliminary design stage
- Detailed design stage
- Pre-opening/construction stage
- Existing roads
