Road Safety Foundation

Road Safety Audits are not carried out on existing roads in the UK, although they are often carried out in other countries (see Chapters 8 and 10). In the UK, this type of work is carried out routinely by local highway authorities as route safety studies using historic collision data to identify problem routes and to establish common types of collisions. In addition, since 2002, the Road Safety Foundation has produced an annual report mapping the risks on motorways and major A roads in the UK as part of the EuroRAP project (Road Safety Foundation, 2013). The report compares risks on roads in different areas of the UK, and shows how risks on roads have changed over time. 

Road Safety Foundation (2013) Measuring to Manage Tracking the Safety of Britain s Major Road Network. Road Safety Foundation, Basingstoke, UK. 

Commissioned research - for example, the Road Safety Foundation has produced several detailed safety studies and reports annually on the risk ratings of main roads as part of the EuroRAP project. 

Commissioned research — for example, the AA Foundation for Road Safety Research produced several detailed safety studies between 1986 and 2002. 

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The problem of providing stable economic foundations for implementing and managing road safety programs is the key to improved effectiveness and efficiency of road safety work. A decision is seldom taken to ensure the availability of a budget for road safety activities from the national budget. Moreover, the lack of information on measures implementation costs at national and international level, combined with a lack of knowledge on the methods appropriate to calculate these costs, makes the evaluation of the actual implementation expenses an estimation by itself. 

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Part 1 contains insights on the systemic nature of safety management and how different industiy modes (medical, rail, road and aviation) have introduced SMS in varying degrees of maturation. It will submit that the foundations of SMS are the same in these modes, however, its tools and apphcations vary because of the disparate contexts of these industries. 

Numerous organizations around the world do have good safety programs. Some of them, like NASA, have suffered tragic losses on the road to an effective program and continue to leam and evolve. However, we don t have to wait for a disaster to employ effective programs. One of the 1995 winners of the Innovations in American Government, sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the John F. Kennedy School of... 

The use of fly ash in concrete does not solve the disposal problem but only shifts it to another locale. If cement is composed of 30% fly ash, it has been estimated that the radon diffusing out of the concrete (porosity—5%) into a room (10 x 10 x 4 m) would be about 10 pCi/cm —100 times lower than the MFC. However, with higher porosity, concrete and lower ventilation rates the margin of safety decreases, and it means that concrete containing fly ash should not be used in structures for habitation though it would be permissible for use in foundations, bridges, and roads. 

Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (U.S.) www.hwvsafctv.org Nordic Road Sc Transport Research (Scandinavia) www.vti.se/nordic Transport Research Laboratory (U.K.) www.trl.co.uk/content/overview.asp pid=51 American Automobile Association Foundation for Traffic Safety www.aaafoundation.org... 

Abstract. ISO 26262 - Road vehicles-Functional Safety is a standard for the automotive industry, administered in an attempt to prevent potential accidents due to systematic and random failures in the Electrical/Electronic-system. ISO 26262 is based on the principle of relying on safety requirements as the main source of information to enforce correctness of design. We show that the contract theory from the SPEEDS FP6 project provides a suitable foundation to structure safety requirements in ISO 26262. Contracts provide the necessary support to separate the responsibihties between a system and its environment by explicitly imposing requirements on the environment as assumptions, in order to guarantee the safety requirements. We show this by characterizing two levels of safety requirements with contracts for an industrial system where we also show how contract theory supports the verification of consistency and completeness of safety requirements. 

One important foundation stone is to get the key institutions within road transport (road builders, traffic managers, vehicle makers, transport planners, etc.) to develop generative safety cultures internally. While Safe System thinking requires institutions such as road and traffic authorities to accept a level of accountability far greater than ever applied historically, this still falls fundamentally short of the generative safety cultures that can be found in the industrial field. 

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