STPA-Based Analysis of the Process Involved in Enforcing Road Safety in Austria

The European Commission pursues a strategic action plan using the “Safe System” approach. function, layout and design of roads shall be coordinated in such way that human error is compensated, possible accidents no longer cause fatalities or serious injuries. Four fields are defined: people, vehicles, laws. This study aims to model process involved road safety management Austria based on System-Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA) identify areas improvement also meet these goals. intended create basis for method can applied practice traffic authorities owners responsible monitoring enforcing Austria. Their main instrument Road Safety Inspection (RSI) focuses primarily planning aspects. proposes including human-road-vehicle interactions RSI. STPA-based analysis showed how RSI improved provide more comprehensive, accurate relevant information about hazards at various levels structure. results used improving all users.