Policy Instruments for Managing EU Road Safety Targets: Road Safety Impact Assessment

Laurinavičius, Alfredas; Ušpalytė−Vitkūnienė, Rasa; Ratkeviciute, Kornelija; Čygaitė, Laura; Skrodenis, Egidijus; Antov, Dago; Smirnovs, Juris; Bobrovaite-Jurkone, Birute

doi:10.3846/bjrbe.2012.09

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“…The project focuses on the exchange of experiences, knowledge and joint development of road infrastructure safety management procedures. BALTRIS is led by the Lithuanian Road Administration under the Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Lithuania and the project partners are: Lithuanian Road Administration, Estonian Road Administration, Swedish Transport Administration, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Tallinn University of Technology, Lund University and Riga Technical University (Laurinavičius et al 2012).…”

Section: Methodology For Road Network Safety Rankingmentioning

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“…During the BALTRIS project a comprehensive review of investigations in different countries in the field of network safety ranking was carried out, the exchange of the best practice was performed and recommendations were given for the implementation of this procedure defined in the Directive 2008/96/EC (Laurinavičius et al 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Safety ranking of the Lithuanian road network of national significance

Jasiūnienė

Čygas

Ratkeviciute

et al. 2012

The Baltic Journal of Road and Bridge Engineering

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The Directive 2008/96/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on Road Infrastructure Safety Management requires that the Member States shall establish and implement the network safety ranking. Safety performance of existing roads should be increased by targeting investments to the highest accident concentration sections and (or) to the road sections or crossings with the highest accident reduction potential. Road network safety management is applied within the road network in operation covering the selection of traffic safety improvement measures in optimal locations, evaluation of the safety effects and implementing the measures. The article describes the method for selecting and prioritising road sections which have higher than the average accident saving potential in each road category. When selecting road sections for treatment, a potential reduction of accident costs shall be taken into consideration. Road sections in each category are studied and classified by the factors related to road safety, such as the number of accidents, traffic flow and road characteristics. The article describes how the procedure of the road network safety ranking and the ranking of high accident concentration sections is implemented in Lithuania and propose further steps.

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Section: Methodology For Road Network Safety Rankingmentioning

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Safety ranking of the Lithuanian road network of national significance

Jasiūnienė

Čygas

Ratkeviciute

et al. 2012

The Baltic Journal of Road and Bridge Engineering

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“…The idea of road safety impact assessment (RSIA) is that road safety should play an important role in the decision making during the design/planning stage [32,50,91]. The 2008 Directive defines RSIA as "a strategic comparative analysis of the impact of a new road or a substantial modification to the existing network on the safety performance of the road network", conducted alongside with other impact assessments, such as environmental impact assessment (EIA).…”

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Safety assessment of Czech motorways and national roads

Ambros

Turek

Brich

et al. 2019

Eur. Transp. Res. Rev.

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Purpose: Czech motorways and national roads form the primary road network, which is critical in terms of safety. To be able to rationally manage network safety in both planning and operation stages, quality network-wide data and tools are needed. While such tools already exist in some countries, their transferability is limited. Authors therefore collected data and used it to develop tools, which allowed conducting state-of-the-art road safety impact assessment and network safety ranking in the Czech conditions. In addition to primary road network, focus was widened to include also secondary roads, in order to enable assessment of impacts on adjacent road network. Methods: Accident, road and traffic data was collected, using not only existing databases, but also including own collection of traffic volumes on motorway interchanges. Data was used to develop the tools, based on accident prediction models and accident modification factors. Results: The final accident prediction models and accident modification factors enabled conducting road safety impact assessment, for which simple on-line tool was also developed. For network safety ranking, accident prediction models were applied according to the Empirical Bayes method, in order to determine potential for safety improvement of the studied road network elements, with the final priority list visualized in an on-line map. Both outputs are shortly presented in the paper. Conclusions: Data and sample size limitations lead to some compromises in modelling, such as using fixed proportions of observed accident severities or omitted variables. Nevertheless, the study established the practical framework for both road safety impact assessment and network safety ranking. It may serve as an example for other member countries, which also lack their local tools. Follow-up studies may focus on future model updating and improvements, as well as development of local accident modification factors.

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“…Therefore, if a problem occurred in one sphere (environment), it can cause more negative short-term or long-term effects. -Moreover, the methodology of assessment of rural road transport infrastructure which was approved by the Lithuanian Road Administration (after EU official recommendations) is commonly used for the assessment of urban road transport infrastructure (Automobilių kelių investicijų vadovas….2006; Guide to Cost Benefit Analysis…2008; Laurinavičius et al 2012). Referring to the EU recommendations, the Lithuanian Guidelines defined the main steps towards implementing road infrastructure projects and the main aspects used for assessment.…”

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Towards Creating the Assessment Methodology for Urban Road Transport Development Projects

Griškevičiūtė-Gečienė

Burinskienė

2012

Technological and Economic Development of Economy

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The assessment of development on transport infrastructure is a very complicated process using different methods and complexity substantiating their necessity to the State and the society. Accomplished analysis of the assessment of development projects on transport infrastructure used in foreign countries and Lithuania shows that standardized and united methodology does not exist; however many methods and their modifications are used in transport sector. Moreover, there is a problem concerning the assessment of development projects of urban and rural road transport infrastructure in Lithuania. It is obvious that differences between urban and rural road transport infrastructure do exist, but Lithuanian practice shows that common methods are used during the process of preparation and evaluation of development projects, including common assessment aspects, criteria and result indicators.

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Policy Instruments for Managing EU Road Safety Targets: Road Safety Impact Assessment

Cited by 12 publications

References 9 publications

Safety ranking of the Lithuanian road network of national significance

Safety ranking of the Lithuanian road network of national significance

Safety assessment of Czech motorways and national roads

Towards Creating the Assessment Methodology for Urban Road Transport Development Projects

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