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Date |
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Measuring and mapping the safety of Europe's roads: Pan-European Risk Map 2009
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Dec-2009 |
This zip file contains a series of maps showing the changing risk of death and serious injury that road users face across 140,000km of the major road network of 15 countries. |
Star Rating Roads for Safety
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Dec-2009 |
This report explains how EuroRAP road inspections are carried out, the infrastructure elements that are assessed as part of the survey and how these elements are combined to calculate the EuroRAP Road Protection Score and Star Ratings. The document is presented here to enable practitioners to understand and engage with the EuroRAP protocols. Comments on the document should be sent to icanhelp@eurorap.org. |
Barriers to change: designing safe roads for motorcyclists
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Dec-2008 |
This position paper is from the Motorcycle Safety Review Panel established by EuroRAP to look at safe road design for motorcyclists. The paper shows that motorcycle crashes cost the European economy billions annually and argues that the response is not proportionate to the scale of the problem. It examines crash barriers that routinely save the lives of car occupants but that can cause traumatic injury to motorcyclists. The Panel's work shows that simple measures, such as adding protection to barriers on tight curves where riders are more likely to be hurt, need to be systematically introduced on a large scale. This paper needs to be read by everyone who wants practical action on designing safer roads for motorcyclists. |
UK Trial Survey to establish Road Protection Scores for the UK
N Klassen, J Berlitz, R Stock, W Kohler, R Dziub, J Dingeldein, ADAC Verkehrstechnik
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Nov-2007 |
Within EuroRAP, IAM Trust and the Highways Agency (HA) have applied the Road Protection Score (RPS) to UK roads. TRL has been commissioned to manage the two year project. ADAC has been contracted to conduct the road test in the UK. This document shows the results of the pilot assessment. |
EuroRAP II Technical Report 2005-06
David Lynam, James Castle, Jenifer Scoons (TRL), Stephen D Lawson, Joanne Hill, Suzanne Charman (EuroRAP AISBL)
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Mar-2007 |
Comprehensive Technical Report discussing the detail behind Risk Mapping across Europe and the application of EuroRAP accident risk data in benchmarking the performance of road authorities, and highlighting results from on-road inspections. The report also covers the development of RAP methodology and discusses how EuroRAP national results and principles have been communicated. |
EuroRAP Year 1 (2003) update - performance tracking of roads
David Lynam, Ton Hummel and Judith Barker (TRL), Stephen D Lawson and Joanne Hill (The AA Motoring Trust)
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Sept-2004 |
A core objective of EuroRAP is to measure and raise awareness of risk. During 2003, several elements of performance monitoring of roads supported this goal: risk rates were tracked over time; the performance of different groups of road was compared within and between countries; and measurement of collective risk provided estimates of the potential for accident savings over road networks. A system of road inspections (RPS) has been piloted to understand the extent to which roads protect from severe injury once an accident has occurred.
Source: Traffic Engineering and Control, September 2004, Vol 45, No 8, pp300-304 |
The Contribution of Tourists and Visitors to Road Traffic Accidents: A Preliminary Analysis and Trends and Issues for Central Scotland
Linda Walker and Stephen J. Page, Department of Marketing, University of Stirling, Scotland
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June-2004 |
This paper reviews the literature on road traffic accidents and their role in the mobility of tourists, and builds upon knowledge developed in the tourism, transportation and safety science areas of research to illustrate the significance of these issues in relation to tourist well-being. Results show that, compared to local drivers, visitors are more likely to be involved in head-on collisions, on main, open roads with higher speed limits, and that these accidents are more likely to be serious or fatal. EuroRAP is discussed for its strengths in (1) identifying stretches of road with poor safety performance which leads to high levels of death and serious injury, and (2) providing detail of road safety and injuries in both a European context and at a road level.
Source: Current Issues in Tourism, 2004, Vol 7, No 3, pp217-241.www.ingentaconnect.com |
Year 1 Technical Report
David Lynam, Ton Hummel, Judith Barker (TRL) and Stephen D Lawson (The AA Motoring Trust)
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May-2004 |
This Technical Report covers EuroRAP I and the work carried out during 2003. In this period the programme focussed on consolidating and extending the methodology and on increasing the number of countries involved. The programme has demonstrated that data from different time periods can be compared to provide an indication of the change in safety performance over time; methods have been developed for comparing safety performance between networks and between countries; potential links with existing engineering programmes have been clarified and the methodology for road inspections and scoring has been refined. |
Summary of Pilot Phase Technical Report
David Lynam, Tom Sutch, Jeremy Broughton (TRL), and Stephen D Lawson (AA Foundation for Road Safety Research)
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May-2003 |
This summary of the pilot phase technical report appeared in the May 2003 issue of Traffic Engineering and Control. |
Pilot Phase Technical Report
David Lynam, Tom Sutch, Jeremy Broughton (TRL), and Stephen D Lawson (AA Foundation for Road Safety Research)
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May-2003 |
This Technical Report covers the EuroRAP pilot phase which produced maps of fatal and serious accidents rates in four countries and began the development of a standard road inspection score of road safety features. In Great Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden and Catalonia the distribution and rates of fatal and serious accidents on road sections were compared, the effect of high-level design factors on accident rates demonstrated and potential applications of this information examined. |
Road Protection Score (RPS) method and pilot results
EuroRAP AISBL
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Feb-2002 |
An early report discussing the aims and objectives of the development of a EuroRAP "drive through" inspection of routes - the Road Protection Score (RPS). |
