Practical Road Safety Auditing

Practical Road Safety Auditing explores the systematic process for checking the safety of new and improved road schemes for the benefit of future, road users. An effective Road Safety Audit ensures that all highways schemes operate as safely as is practicable by minimising the chance of future collisions and reducing the risk in their severity. The third edition of Practical Road Safety Auditing provides engineers with clear end comprehensive guidance regarding the new Certificate of Competency, launched by Highways England as part of the new Safety Audit Standard in the Design Manual for Roads and Bridges. A successful Audit will help road users such as pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists, bus users, equestrians and those with visual and mobility impairments. An understanding and appreciation of an efficient Road Safety Audit will also improve design and evaluation processes for both new and existing road schemes across the world. This new edition shares the latest theory and practice from regions such as Europe, South East Asia, Australasia, the Middle East, Canada and the Americas, using real-life examples and case studies of successes and failures to enable readers to apply best practice to their own road scheme. Practical Road Safety Auditing includes: up-to-date new research and control data from the industry to help readers carry out a successful Road Safety Audit, new Certificate of Competency requirements for engineers in the UK and a brief discussion of practice in other countries, coverage of other types of design audits, including technical, cycle, pedestrian, mobility, Non-Motorised User Audit and Quality Audit, reference to the revised Road Safety Audit Standard HD 19/15, current issues and legal implications of the Road Safety Audit process. Written by practising Road Safety Auditors, who between them have carried out over 2,000 Road Safety Audits, this book will teach, inform and guide all practitioners commissioning audits, those carrying them out, and those whose schemes are being audited.

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Practical Road Safety Auditing

Practical Road Safety Auditing explores the systematic process for checking the safety of new and improved road schemes for the benefit of future, road users. An effective Road Safety Audit ensures that all highways schemes operate as safely as is practicable by minimising the chance of future collisions and reducing the risk in their severity. The third edition of Practical Road Safety Auditing provides engineers with clear end comprehensive guidance regarding the new Certificate of Competency, launched by Highways England as part of the new Safety Audit Standard in the Design Manual for Roads and Bridges. A successful Audit will help road users such as pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists, bus users, equestrians and those with visual and mobility impairments. An understanding and appreciation of an efficient Road Safety Audit will also improve design and evaluation processes for both new and existing road schemes across the world. This new edition shares the latest theory and practice from regions such as Europe, South East Asia, Australasia, the Middle East, Canada and the Americas, using real-life examples and case studies of successes and failures to enable readers to apply best practice to their own road scheme. Practical Road Safety Auditing includes: up-to-date new research and control data from the industry to help readers carry out a successful Road Safety Audit, new Certificate of Competency requirements for engineers in the UK and a brief discussion of practice in other countries, coverage of other types of design audits, including technical, cycle, pedestrian, mobility, Non-Motorised User Audit and Quality Audit, reference to the revised Road Safety Audit Standard HD 19/15, current issues and legal implications of the Road Safety Audit process. Written by practising Road Safety Auditors, who between them have carried out over 2,000 Road Safety Audits, this book will teach, inform and guide all practitioners commissioning audits, those carrying them out, and those whose schemes are being audited.

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Practical Road Safety Auditing explores the systematic process for checking the safety of new and improved road schemes for the benefit of future, road users. An effective Road Safety Audit ensures that all highways schemes operate as safely as is practicable by minimising the chance of future collisions and reducing the risk in their severity. The third edition of Practical Road Safety Auditing provides engineers with clear end comprehensive guidance regarding the new Certificate of Competency, launched by Highways England as part of the new Safety Audit Standard in the Design Manual for Roads and Bridges. A successful Audit will help road users such as pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists, bus users, equestrians and those with visual and mobility impairments. An understanding and appreciation of an efficient Road Safety Audit will also improve design and evaluation processes for both new and existing road schemes across the world. This new edition shares the latest theory and practice from regions such as Europe, South East Asia, Australasia, the Middle East, Canada and the Americas, using real-life examples and case studies of successes and failures to enable readers to apply best practice to their own road scheme. Practical Road Safety Auditing includes: up-to-date new research and control data from the industry to help readers carry out a successful Road Safety Audit, new Certificate of Competency requirements for engineers in the UK and a brief discussion of practice in other countries, coverage of other types of design audits, including technical, cycle, pedestrian, mobility, Non-Motorised User Audit and Quality Audit, reference to the revised Road Safety Audit Standard HD 19/15, current issues and legal implications of the Road Safety Audit process. Written by practising Road Safety Auditors, who between them have carried out over 2,000 Road Safety Audits, this book will teach, inform and guide all practitioners commissioning audits, those carrying them out, and those whose schemes are being audited.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780727760166
Publisher: I C E Publishing
Publication date: 11/22/2014
Pages: 176
Product dimensions: 6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.60(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix

Preface xi

01 Introduction 1

Definition of Road Safety Audit 1

History 2

Design standards and safety 3

International development of Road Safety Audit 4

References 5

02 Road Safety Audit procedures 7

UK Trunk Road Standards 1990 to 2015 7

Institution of Highways and Transportation guidelines 1990 to 2008 7

Local authority procedures 8

Road Safety Audit procedures for new developments 9

References 12

03 The Road Safety Audit process 13

How to carry out a Road Safety Audit 13

Methodology for undertaking Road Safety Audits during the design process (Feasibility Stage, Stage 1 and Stage 2) 21

Interim Road Safety Audits 22

Methodology for undertaking Stage 3 Road Safety Audits 23

The Road Safety Audit report 24

Non-safety issues 26

The Road Safety Audit response report 27

The Road Safety Audit exception report 28

Stage 4 Road Safety Audits 29

References 29

04 Road Safety Auditor competency 31

Training and qualifications for Road Safety Auditors 31

UK qualifications prior to 2013 31

European Directive Certificates of Competence 31

UK training course route 32

UK portfolio of evidence route 34

Implication of the Certificate of Competency in the UK 35

Certificates of Competency in Europe 35

The future for Certificates of Competency 38

References 38

05 Road Safety Audit 'control data' 39

Sources of control data 39

Safety principles from published sources 44

Monitoring - 'before and after' studies 98

References 99

06 Road Safety problems identified within Road Safety Audit reports 101

TMS Consultancy Road Safety Audit experience 101

Study of problems identified within Road Safety Audit reports 102

Road users at risk 103

Scheme features 111

Junction types 120

Other common problems 131

References 131

07 Legal implications of the Road Safety Audit process 133

Claimant's success 136

The Road Safety Audit Team's concern 136

The project manager or designer's concern 137

The client's concern 137

Summary of legal implications 138

References 139

08 International experience 141

The EU 141

Australia 143

New Zealand 143

Asia 143

South America 144

The Middle East 145

North America 149

References 153

09 Other types of design audit 155

Technical audit 155

Cycle audit 155

Pedestrian audit 155

Mobility audit 156

Non-motorised user audit 156

Quality audit 157

Design risk assessment 159

Conflicts between audits and design 159

References 161

10 Current issues in Road Safety Audit 163

Auditing without 'evidence': case study - public realm 163

Auditing 'complex schemes': case study - smart motorways (formerly known as managed motorways) 166

Auditing in other countries; case studies - the Middle East and the Netherlands 169

Auditing on existing roads - road safety inspections: case studies - Ireland and Saudi Arabia 174

Road safety assessments and risk assessments 177

Case study - Gloucestershire 179

Case study - star rating of road designs 180

Costs and benefits of Road Safety Audit 181

Final remarks 181

References 182

Index 185

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