Institution of Highways and Transportation

Cahrera J.C. and A.F. Nikolaides. 1988. Creep performance of cold dense hituminous mixtmts. Journal of the Institution of Highways and Transport, Vol. 35, No. 10, p. 7. 

Heslop M.W., M.J. Elbom and G.R. Pooley. 1982. Recent developments in surface dressing. The Highway Engineer, pp. 6-19. London Institution of Highways and Transportation. 

The Institution of Highways and Transportation s Guidelines for Accident Investigation and Prevention produced in 1980 included an emphasis on safety checking, as an accident prevention mechanism. 

In response to the growing number of local authorities that were starting to carry out Road Safety Audits, the Institution of Highways and Transportation (IHT) produced guidelines for Road Safety Audit... 

Institution of Structural Engineers/Institution of Highways and Transportation. 2002. Design Recommendations for Multi-Storey and Underground Car Parks, 3rd ed. London Institution of Structural Engineers. 

Institution of Highways and Transportation (IHT) http //www.iht.org/ (accessed November 3, 2010). IHT has been broadening its brief and appeal outside the road engineering community that first established the institution. It publishes a journal, organizes conferences, and produces important guidelines. 

All of the versions of the IHT s Road Safety Audit guidelines described above were produced before the institution gained chartered status in 2009. It is now known as the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT). Following the pubh-cation of HD 19/15, the CIHT is considering a further revision of its Road Safety Audit guidelines. 

IHT (Institution of Highways and Transportation) (1996) Guidelines for the Safety Audit of Highways, 2nd edn. IHT, London, UK. 

HD 19/15 provides advice and guidance on how to undertake Road Safety Audits on trunk roads (including motorways). On local road schemes there is more flexibility in the way Road Safety Audits are undertaken, and more advice can be found in the Institution of Highways and Transportation (IHT) Road Safety Audit guidelines (IHT, 2008). Some local authorities have their own procedures for carr3ring out Road Safety Audits in their own areas. However, there are six fundamental principles that should always be applied when carrying out Road Safety Audits, regardless of the jurisdiction. 

At present (2015), this route is administered by the Society of Road Safety Auditors (SoRSA), an organisation formed within the Chartered Institute of Highways and Transportation (CIHT). An HA approved verifier within SoRSA checks the portfolio and issues a Certificate of Competency. (It is understood by the authors that the Institute of Highway Engineers (IHE) is developing a portfolio route to Certificate of Competency.)... 

In order to defend a claim, the defendant authority wiU probably need to demonstrate that it has carried out the Road Safety Audit in line with industry standards. It may be possible to demonstrate that the Road Safety Audit had been carried out in line with a lesser standard , provided that it can be shown that the lesser standard has been prepared in accordance with a formal local policy drawn up to allocate scarce resources effectively. For this reason, local authorities are advised to examine the Road Safety Audit standard HD 19/15 and to decide which aspects they wish to adopt formally. They should then write local procedures explaining where and why they depart from the standard, and should have those procedures adopted by local politicians as a formal policy. Good advice on producing a local Road Safety Audit procedure is given in the Institution of Highways and Transportation s Road Safety Audit guidelines (IHT, 2008). 

A cycle audit is a check on a scheme design to ensure that the particular needs of cyclists have been taken into account. The Institution of Highways and Transportation produced guidelines on cycle audit (IHT, 1996), which helps to define this task and explain how it should be carried out. The guidelines were endorsed by the Department for Transport in a Traffic Advice Leaflet (DfT, 1998a). The safety of cyclists is one of the items to be considered in a cycle audit, but there are other matters such as comfort and continuity of route. Cycle audits are normally carried out by someone independent of the design team who has experience of the needs of cyclists. 

UK Trunk Road Standards 1990 to 2015 Institution of Highways and Transportation guidelines 1990 to 2008 Local authority procedures... 

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