Citation

Yildiz A, Nadler F, Hauger G. Proc. Road Saf. Four Continents Conf. 2010; 15: 482-493.

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(Copyright © 2010, Conference Sponsor)

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Abstract

Road Safety Inspections (RSIs) are a relatively new method to gather safety relevant information about roads. Within the scope of the RIPCORD-iSEREST project, funded by the European Union, a survey involving 14 European countries have been conducted to outline a best-practice guideline for RSIs. The in 2006 published results summarized that RSI is a preventive tool and should be carried out by trained road experts for the whole road network on a regular basis (two to four years) and should result in a formal report, including detected hazards and safety issues.However, a RSI is very time consuming and therefore cost expensive (estimated 10.000 € per 10 km) [Nast, 2006], and therefore is usually only performed on small road sections with a high accident density. In order to implement RSI's as they were intended, a software tool, that covers the complete process of a RSI was developed in cooperation with the civil engineer office NAST consulting, which carries out RSI's in Austria. Field tests have shown that a small team of two to three experts can inspect a section of 200 kilometers including all necessary pre- and post processing tasks within a week. For Austria this would mean that the complete motorway network of 2000 km can be inspected in five weeks by two teams. Considering also the regional distribution, six teams would need about 200 weeks, the intended four year period for RSIs, to inspect the complete upper road network of Austria, containing 38.000 kilometers of motorways, highways and federal roads.