Road Safety Audit

Road safety audit is formal procedure for assessing accident potential and safety performance in the provision of new road schemes, the improvement and rehabilitation of existing road & in maintenance of roads.The role of auditor is to provide independent advice in the form of written recommendations.The designer or client then considers the advice and formal decision is made by them on whether or not to adopt each of the recommended safety alterations.The primary role of audit team is to identify the potential problems of a highway project by conducting the site inspection & collecting data from various agencies.The objective of the study is the identification of accident prone areas on the road from FIR, to study the effect of roadway geometrics and traffic conditions on the road stretch and development of statistical relationship between accident rates and various factors causing accidents.The scope of the study is to reduce accidents on road network, reducing severity of accidents and the need for costly remedial work is reduced.The road selected for the study is Bannerghatta road (12 km).The accident analysis is done from four years data.The V.F.Babkov's analysis is done by collecting geometric features of the road.Pedestrian safety analysis also done.Accident prone locations are identified by the all analysis.