Applying the Road Safety Audit Review (RSAR) Method to Mitigate Light Rail Traffic Vehicular and Pedestrian Accidents at At-Grade Intersections, Baltimore, Maryland

摘要

Road safety audit is a formal procedure for assessing accident potential and safety performance for an existing and/or future roadways and transportation facilities. Its systematic application can also ensure that a growing awareness of good road safety principles is achieved throughout planning, design, construction and operations of the roadway. Road safety audit (RSA) is different from the typical reviews for project planning and highway design projects. The RSA review process consists of a multidisciplinary team of senior professionals representing offices from highway planning, highway and bridge design, traffic engineering, operations and construction, human factors, systems engineering, law enforcement, risk assessment, community traffic safety coordinators and others. This team is independent of anyone who is part of the planning and design team. The team's focus is on safety enhancements and not on compliance to highway design standards, alignments and/or value engineering. Therefore, there is a distinct difference between the typical design reviews and the safety audit reviews.