Road Safety Methodology and
Analysis
By the
Eurosain Team
(European Road Safety Institute)
www.eurosain.org
a division of Riskope International
www.riskope.com
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Road Safety:
a social and civil duty
 Estimated 1.2M killed every year world-wide, and
40 times more injured (Who, 2004)
 Appx. 39 thousand fatalities in Europe, in 2008
 3.5M wounded in 2008 in Europe
 The economic impact of this human tragedy is
evaluated at 200B Euro/yr, equivalent to appx.
2% of the European GDP
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Worldwide toll of road
accidents:
( Statistics by World Bank & WHO )
• The global financial cost of road traffic
injuries is 518 billion USD each year.
• The cost to low and middle income
countries is 65 billion USD, more than all
development aid income.
• For males aged 15-44, road traffic
injuries rank second (behind HIV/AIDS) as
the leading cause of premature death
and ill health worldwide.
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Accidents can involve any
road user/type of traffic
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Road Acccidents compared
to other hazards:
 World-wide, each Year 5 times the 2004
Tsunami victims
 In Europe, more than ten times the 9-11
Twin Towers Attack victims each year
 In comparison, a half-dozen airlines
crashes in the first half of 2009 have killed
worldwide, 2000 times less people than
traffic accidents!
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It would be wrong to believe
That what follows in this presentation only
applies to developed countries
 The number of victims in developing
countries is staggering and dramatically
increasing. Low and middle income countries
account for more than 85 per cent of global
deaths from road traffic accidents
 The largest reductions in accidents are
driven by rather simple mitigative measures
that can be afforded by any country, as well
as education and behavior control. 6

And like for diseases and
landmines
Children are often the innocent victims:
One child is killed every three minutes
world-wide, in a road accident
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The European Engagement
 2001 White paper:
Reduce to one half the
victims by 2010
 2003 “Third European
Road Safety Plan” .
Objective: save 20.000
lives
 2008 European Directive
2008/96/CE on Safety
Management of Road
Infrastructures 8

Road Safety Planning
 Safety Audit
 Safety Review
 Road safety impact assestemt - RIA
 Accidents Review and Analysis
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Safety Audit
Can be introduced at project's inception.
This preventive action is geared towards accident
reduction measures to be integrated in the
project.
The Audit covers ALL the road users and is
multidisciplinary by essence.
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Objectives of Safety Audit
 Hazard Identification;
 Hazard reduction or risk management
recommendations;
 Holistic network based approach in order
to avoid just exporting problems to other
areas
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Audit Process
Project Codes
Auditors
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Safety Review
The Road Safety Review (RSR) is deployed
on existing and open roads. It foresees
cyclic re-evaluations of safety conditions
leading to safety enhancement
recommendations.
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Safety Review Objectives
Road Safety Review (RSR) leads to
the definition of pertinent upgrades.
RSR allows to check the whole road
environment and leads to balanced
sustainable hazard reduction or risk
management solutions.
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Safety Review Methodology
Safety Reviews are generally supported by
checklists and standard evaluation templates.
Checklist and templates encompass questions and
levels of detail compatible with the phase and
criticality of the study.
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Safety Review Benefits
 Alert (of hazards)
 Information (about the hazards)
 Support-Guide (solution)
 Control (during use)
 Forgiveness (in case of mistake)
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Road Safety Impact Assessment
(RIA)
RIA (Euro directive 2008/96/CE) proposes a
holistic approach of Road Safety which
includes adjacent infrastructures and
elements, including their possible change
of functionality and use.
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RIA Objectives
Ensure the integration of Safety in all
phases of:
– Planning
– Design
– Service
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RIA Methodology
Two levels:
 Global
 Specific
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Analysis of Road Accidents
 Analyse all accidents of a transport
system to define critical points
 Understand the causes (main, root
causes) of accidents
 Design reasonable and sustainable
hazard reduction or risk management
solutions
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Worldwide toll of road
accidents:
( Statistics by World Bank & WHO )
• By 2020, unless action is taken, road
traffic injuries are predicted to rise
overall by about 80 per cent in low and
middle income countries.
Source: The "World report on road traffic injury prevention"
jointly published in 2004 by the
World Bank and the World Health Organization
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The war against
Road Accidents
can be Won!
 Create awareness and education programs
 Hazard and Risk analyses to define
reasonable and sustainable mitigation
programs
 Multicultural understanding to design the
above keeping in mind the cultural and
social background of the road users
 Developing appropriate Road Safety
Certification Programs
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Eurosain
Your Partner
for
Road Safety Certification and
Hazard/Risk Management of Roads
Networks:
Let's Save Lives Together!
www.eurosain.org
Many thanks to safeindianroads for asking us to promote these activities
and allowing us to use their pictures of accidents and some of their data
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