The Road Safety Audit has been established as an effective tool for proactively improving the safety of a road in the design and operation stages. They have been successfully implemented internationally. A Road Safety Audit is the examination of the safety of a road at the planning, design or operational stage by an independent group of road safety experts.
The main sections of a Road Safety Audit include:
- Traffic signs and signals
- Safety (highway safety fencing and barriers)
- Electric lighting
- Road condition
- Road and Junction Design Issues
- Visibility
- Characteristics of the roadside