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

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.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).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.zadm201

For safety's sake, let's do road marking quality control

Paper presented at the 20th Annual South African Transport Conference 16 - 20 July 2001 "Meeting the transport challenges in Southern Africa", CSIR International Convention Centre, Pretoria, South Africa.This paper was transferred from the original CD ROM created for this conference. The material on the CD ROM was published using Adobe Acrobat 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: [email protected] URL: http://www.doctech.co.z

Is there room for innovation in the SA road traffic signs manual ?

Paper presented at the South African Transport Conference 17 - 20 July 2000 "Action in transport for the new millennium", CSIR International Convention Centre, Pretoria, South Africa. ABSTRACT:The third edition of the SA Road Traffic Signs Manual (SARTSM) has been in use since 1993. It constitutes a complete technical revision of the Manual in use earlier and provides guidelines for most situations to be encountered in the road signage environment. Due to the extensive expansion and upgrading of the facilities at the Johannesburg International Airport (JIA) and in particular the construction of the multi-storey parkade, changes had been made to the distribution roads within the Airport precinct. Road signage issues represented a large portion of the complaints received by Airport management in the past. The changes to the road system presented the opportunity to reconsider the way in which motorist guidance was given. JIA is an exceedingly large trip generator. At the moment, it is estimated that these trips amount to more than 30000 vehicles daily. The planning for the airport is being done for some 20 million PAX annually by the year 2010. This would result in at least 50000 vehicle trips daily. Due to the extremely congested landside area the task of the motorist is equally difficult, especially so for the non-regular visitor to JIA. The brief given to Africon was to develop a signage system that would be user-friendlier and fit the proposed new usage pattern of the facilities available to the motorist. The signage plan provided for the motorist to be led through a number of successive decisions to reach his destination. Guidance towards available parking has been achieved through the linking of variable message signs (both rotating vane and LED display types) to a parking management system implemented in all the parking areas, thus providing dynamically changing information. Other frequently used or future facilities were included in the signage plan in such a way that the most logical routes to reach them were identified. This took cognisance of the need to balance the usage of the two approach roads (also in terms of road signage utilization) as far as possible. This signage plan had been developed against the background of the guidelines contained in SARTSM. A number of principles in SARTSM were utilised in an unconventional way. Differently coloured background insert panels were used to provide a means whereby different routes could be colour-coded, for example. The colours so used are also not regular road signage colours, but were chosen to partly co-incide with a colour convention that has been utilised within the terminal buildings for some time already. With the cooperation of the signage manufacturer, it was even possible to provide these non-traditional colours in fully retro-reflective sheeting, thus ensuring that the signs look the same by night as by day. It is concluded that the signage plan was successfully implemented in a very complicated environment, because it adhered strictly to certain important principles whilst it interpreted the SARTSM in an innovative way where possible.This paper was transferred from the original CD ROM created for this conference. The material on the CD ROM was published using Adobe Acrobat 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: [email protected] URL: http://www.doctech.co.z

Road safety audits: the way forward

Paper presented at the 29th Annual Southern African Transport Conference 16 - 19 August 2010 "Walk Together", CSIR International Convention Centre, Pretoria, South Africa.This paper was transferred from the original CD ROM created for this conference. The material was published using Adobe Acrobat 8.0 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.zaCD sponsored by TRANSNE

Scaling up road safety activities in World Bank programs in Sub-Saharan Africa

Paper presented at the 23rd Annual Southern African Transport Conference 12 - 15 July 2004 "Getting recognition for the importance of transport", CSIR International Convention Centre, Pretoria, South Africa. During 2002, the World Bank commissioned CSIR Transportek (together with Africon) and SITRASS (together with INRETS) from France, to audit the road safety aspects of their current and planned sector programmes and individual projects in Sub-Sahara Africa. The main sectors investigated included: Transport, Health, Education and Urban Development. Interviews were conducted with the World Bank Task Team Leaders in the various sectors. World Bank Projects were audited, other country documentation investigated, and some interviews conducted, in the following countries: French speaking: Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Mail, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Chad, Togo. English speaking: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. Findings relate to World Bank internal structures to ensure project follow-up and monitoring and influencing the content of projects; road safety knowledge and capacity; and channels of intervention. Findings within the countries comment on the potential of regional harmonization, road safety management and integrity of governance at country level; road safety as a health priority; capacity building, technical assistance and training; knowledge base, community structures; road safety audits; comprehensive transport planning, comprehensive road safety programmes, infrastructure planning and design, accident and injury databases and road safety diagnoses; education, driver training and licensing, vehicle checks, traffic laws and regulation, road safety awareness campaigns and trauma care. Ten critical goals are identified to ensure that the World Bank integrates road safety in their Transport, Health, Urban, and Education programmes. The most important goal for the World Bank is to ensure that their own infrastructure programmes in any sector do not generate accidents, through conducting the necessary quality assurance audits at different project levels. Other goals that may influence project content include the improvement of road safety management in the countries, attention to injuries as a health problem, improved information for policy making, implementation and monitoring; evaluation of engineering corrective measures for especially the non-motorised transport environment, the improvement of road safety skills and knowledge in Africa, focus on vulnerable road users, focus on public transport, and interventions aiming at transforming road user behaviour.This paper was transferred from the original CD ROM created for this conference. The material on the CD ROM was published using Adobe Acrobat 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: [email protected] URL: http://www.doctech.co.z