Citation

Yildiz A, Hauger G. Proc. Road Saf. Four Continents Conf. 2010; 15: 473-481.

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(Copyright © 2010, Conference Sponsor)

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Abstract

The evaluation and rating of the safety of traffic roads has a long tradition, because it is essential to visualize safety lacks and help decision makers to choose the best spots to rebuild and improve. Early approaches to road scoring used accident data, whereas new approaches, like the Star Rating from EuroRAP, use information gathered through special inspections. The common ground of existing methods is the approach to divide the road into sections of different lengths and to evaluate a score for these sections. Our approach is based on data that is gathered through a Road Safety Inspection. The main novelty is that the road is not divided into sections to look how many safety hazards are on one section, but that each detected hazard influences the safety value of its very spot. So the final road evaluation has a granularity of about 10 meters. A further improvement is the distinction between active and passive safety hazards, where the first affects the accident risk while the latter affects the severity of an accident.This paper is intended as a starting point of work, since a complete new approach is introduced. Much research has to be performed to evaluate the approach itself on the one hand, and to find the best values and settings to model the real safety risk on the other hand.