Optimizing Road Safety Inspections on Rural Roads

Road safety depends on a complex balance between all the factors that compose road system: user, vehicle, environment, and infrastructure. Directive 2008/96/EC introduces procedures to improve European Transport Network (TEN-T) safety, recognizing an important role for inspections, but focusing them freeways highways. This paper proposed methods criteria useful optimize current inspection adapt also secondary local rural roads. It is often determine severity weight of different risk in this context, since deficiencies faults can be found both infrastructure other components system. The survey method was applied stretch SS7 Appia state (Lazio, Italy). Producing video capture using GPS sensors geolocalize data proved very compilation forms. results showed good consistency assessments obtained from scoring forms historical accident rate. Therefore, methodology valuable aid understanding concerns defining improvement actions.