The Control of Road Infrastructure Safety Management Procedures

Road infrastructure is one of the pillars of the road safety management system. In order to improve road safety, it is necessary to introduce and implement road safety checks both before and after the road construction process. In the period prior to the construction of a road, it is the planning and design of the road that should be monitored, while following the construction of a road, the initial phases of the use of the road should be monitored, as should the continued use of the road as a maintained highway. There are two aspects to the monitoring and evaluation of the introduction and implementation of road safety control procedures: firstly, measuring the success of the introduction of each individual road safety control procedures in practice and secondly, measuring the overall success of the implementation of those road safety control procedures. To measure the success of the introduction and implementation of road safety procedures, the performances of the systems to be measured need to be defined and the standards for measuring performance set. In order to monitor road safety, a cyclical iterative procedure has been designed for the introduction and implementation of road safety procedures during each stage of the road life cycle, enabling the achievement of the central aim, that of road safety. Developed modern road procedures can be transferred, as good practice, to other countries, especially to those that are undeveloped or developing and thus contribute to the improvement of traffic safety in those countries and the establishment of an integrated global approach to road safety control.