Road Safety Good Practice Guide
Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction
- Purpose
- Scope
- Structure
- Background
- 2. Local arrangements, liaison and consultation
- Management of safety
- Liaison and consultation
- Role of road safety officers
- Role of road safety engineers
- Role of road planning officers
- Road safety qualifications
- 3. General principles
- Integration with Local Transport Plans
- Accident and casualty analysis: identifying problems
- Identifying and prioritising problems
- Data issues
- Importance of rural accident remedial work
- Importance of exposure
- Proxies for exposure variables
- Importance of traffic flows and road class
- Finding solutions
- Economic justification
- New Approach to Appraisal
- Options for funding schemes
- Installation issues
- Safety Audit
- Learning from success and failure
- 4. Treatment selection
- Engineering measures
- Urban roads
- Urban major road junctions
- Urban major road links
- Urban town centres
- Urban Residential roads
- Rural roads
- Rural Villages
- Motorways
- Rural Dual-carriageways
- Rural Dual carriageway junctions
- Rural Dual carriageway links
- Rural Major single-carriageways
- Rural Major single-carriageway links
- Rural Minor single-carriageways 42
- Rural Minor single-carriageways junctions
- Rural Minor single-carriageways links
- Non-engineering measures
- 5. Measuring effectiveness
- Monitoring matters
- When to monitor
- Control sites
- Overall assessment of monitoring
- Data quality
- Police involvement and publicity
- Accident monitoring
- Monitoring vehicle speeds
- Automatic speed monitoring
- Radar or laser speed monitoring
- Where to monitor vehicle speeds
- Journey time monitoring
- Flow monitoring
- Monitoring pedestrian movements
- Monitoring pedal cycle and two-wheeled motor vehicle movements
- Monitoring vehicle (time or distance) headways 50 or inter-vehicle gaps
- Monitoring traffic conflicts
- Attitude surveys
- Road user surveys
- Environmental monitoring
- Evaluation
- Evaluation of traffic speed data
- Evaluation of public perception
- Evaluation of accident changes
- Standard tests of accident changes
- Other factors to consider
- 6. Bibliography
- 7. Abbreviations
- 8. Feedback
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
