Abstract
Road Safety Audits have already been tightly incorporated in the road design process throughout the world. It has proven to be an effective way of increasing road safety without requiring many resources. The cost-benefit-ratios of Road Safety Audits in developed countries are rather high. In Lithuania, the procedure on Road Safety Audits is fairly new, and the direct links between different problems and their occurrence frequency throughout the years are yet to be determined. In this paper, several audits on road safety, performed between the years 2011 and 2017 by the Road Research Institute of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, is analysed. The trends of most relevant problem types identified in those audits throughout the years for different types of roads and streets are presented. Based on those trends, the causes of some common problems are being recognised. Recommendations on possible solutions are suggested.
Highlights
As the world develops in all aspects, one of the main concerns is reducing the unnatural death rate
Many deaths are in low- and middleincome countries, though recently the accident rate has increased in developed countries as well, despite the implemented road safety instructions and legislation
These guidelines are used when assessing the impact on road safety of national significance roads, performing Road Safety Audit (RSA), Road Safety Inspection (RSI), identifying road safety levels and road sections with a high accident concentration (Lithuanian Road Administration..., 2011b)
Summary
As the world develops in all aspects, one of the main concerns is reducing the unnatural death rate. World experts continuously try to improve road safety by designing new traffic calming measures as well as regulating the use of standard measures such as speed humps, and road narrowing. As reported by Tisca, Istrat, Dumitrescu, & Cornu, (2016), Sustainable Safety in the Netherlands and the Swedish Vision Zero are the best-known examples of road safety visions, which were adopted by other countries In both visions, the basic idea is to transform the road system to eliminate all known human-error possibilities, and to reduce physical damages due to accidents. The number of road fatalities in the European Union (EU) decreased by more than half among people aged between 10 and 34 years old during 2006–2015 but increased for the elderly aged over 85 years old (Janstrup, 2017)
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