Road safety assessments and road safety audits on the existing Abu Dhabi Internal road network

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dc.contributor.author Grosskopf, Siegfried E.
dc.contributor.author Kazemi, Tawab
dc.contributor.author Hughes, John
dc.contributor.author Alumsawi Bani Hashim, Sami
dc.contributor.other Southern African Transport Conference (31st : 2012 : Pretoria, South Africa)
dc.contributor.other Minister of Transport, South Africa
dc.date.accessioned 2012-10-19T08:46:57Z
dc.date.available 2012-10-19T08:46:57Z
dc.date.created 2012-07-09
dc.date.issued 2012-10-19
dc.description This paper was transferred from the original CD ROM created for this conference. The material was published using Adobe Acrobat 10.1.0 Technology. The original CD ROM was produced by Document Transformation Technologies Postal Address: PO Box 560 Irene 0062 South Africa. Tel.: +27 12 667 2074 Fax: +27 12 667 2766 E-mail: nigel@doctech URL: http://www.doctech.co.za en_US
dc.description.abstract Paper presented at the 31st Annual Southern African Transport Conference 9-12 July 2012 "Getting Southern Africa to Work", CSIR International Convention Centre, Pretoria, South Africa. en_US
dc.description.abstract Road safety auditing is a process to pro-actively review the potential for road safety improvements on any road or transportation project, whether in a design phase or as an existing road facility. The process is based on the critical assessment of the project features as they would be experienced by any road user. ARRB Group Ltd (ARRB, the Australian Road Research Board) in co-operation with Parsons International Ltd (PIL) conducted road safety audits on a selection of the internal road network of the Municipality of Abu Dhabi City, UAE. The project was conducted in 2011 and consisted of various tasks: • Conducting a network level road safety assessment of 2 600 carriageway-km of roads and streets to identify high risk areas; • Conducting road safety audits on a sub-set of roads and streets of about 300 carriageway-km forming part of the high risk areas; • Recommending remedial measures; • Developing program level cost estimates for remedial treatments • Prioritising remedial treatments based on their cost effectiveness The network level road safety assessment had been conducted using the Hawkeye video survey system and the risk levels of different sections of the network determined by utilizing the proprietary NetRisk software. Available crash information was superimposed on maps showing the network risk levels. In this manner a clear impression could be formed of those areas where safety concerns existed, based on the pro-active review of road features in the road safety assessment process in coordination with the reactive process of crash analysis. Road safety audits were then conducted on the areas with the highest risk levels. The audits were undertaken by combining traditional on-site reviews with a comprehensive geo-referenced inventory of road safety problems extracted from the video surveys. A first order estimate of the cost of the works to remedy the safety concerns on the 300 carriageway-km of audited roads and streets indicated a programme value in excess of USD 93,5Million1 (at 2011 prices). en_US
dc.description.librarian dm2012 en
dc.format.extent 9 pages en_US
dc.format.medium PDF en_US
dc.identifier.isbn 978-1-920017-53-8
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/20226
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.relation.ispartof SATC 2012
dc.rights University of Pretoria en_US
dc.subject Road safety auditing en_US
dc.subject Abu Dhabi en_US
dc.subject Hakeye video survey system en_US
dc.subject.lcsh Transportation
dc.subject.lcsh Transportation -- Africa
dc.subject.lcsh Transportation -- Southern Africa
dc.title Road safety assessments and road safety audits on the existing Abu Dhabi Internal road network en_US
dc.type Presentation en_US


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