TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD

NATIONAL COOPERATIVE HIGHWAY RESEARCH PROGRAM

Project 20-5,Topic 34-02

Road Safety Audits: State of the Practice

Questionnaire

Name of respondent:

Agency:

Title:

Telephone: Fax: E-mail:

INSTRUCTIONS

The information collected will be used to develop a National Cooperative Highway Research Program

(NCHRP) synthesis report on “Road Safety Audits: State of the Practice.” If you or your agency has
conducted

any Road Safety Audits or Road Safety Audit Reviews, or conducted related safety assessments, please
review

and respond to this survey.

The purpose of this survey is to document information on existing experiences and planned activities in
the

application of road safety audits and related proactive safety programs. For the purpose of this survey,
the

following definitions are used:

Road Safety Audit—An RSA is a formal examination of a future roadway project by an independent,

qualified audit team that then reports on potential safety issues.

Road Safety Audit Review—An RSAR is a road safety audit of an existing roadway made by a qualified

independent audit team that reports on the potential safety issues on the existing roadway section.

There are three parts to this survey. All DOTs are asked to please respond to Part I (10 questions). Please

respond to Parts II and III if your state is using RSAs or RSARs.

The survey should be completed by the person(s) with knowledge of the agency’s activities related to
safety
evaluations. You may skip any questions that are not applicable. Attach additional sheets, if necessary.
Please

send the completed survey and additional documentation to:

Eugene M. Wilson

3212 Reynolds Street

Laramie, WY 82072

If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Wilson by telephone: (307) 766-3202 or by e-mail at:

wilson@uwyo.edu, or Dr. Martin Lipinski by telephone: (901) 678-3279 or by e-mail at:

mlipinsk@memphis.edu.

WE APPRECIATE YOUR RESPONSE—THANK YOU

PART I—INSTITUTIONAL ISSUES

1. Does your agency have a safety management plan? ___ Yes ____ No

(Please provide a copy if possible.)

2. Is a road safety audit/road safety audit review program part of the safety management plan?
____Yes ___ No

3. Does your state have sovereign immunity? _____ Full ____ Partial _______ None

4. Does your agency have measurable safety goals? Are these goals specific to reduction in numbers of
fatalities_____

or are these goals rate-based _____? (Please provide a copy if possible.)

5. What are the measures of accountability used for the achievement of these goals?

6. What are the institutional barriers to implementing a road safety audit/road safety audit review
program?

7. If your agency has developed and used modified concepts of road safety audit and road safety audit
reviews, please

provide examples of these changes.

8. Has your agency participated in any road safety audit training? Please describe.

9. Please provide any additional information that you feel would be helpful to improve the
understanding of the state of

the practice of road safety audits and road safety audit reviews.
10. Does your agency have case studies of actual audits/reviews that you would provide for use in the
synthesis? If Yes,

please check if you want them returned________. Please return all information provided to:

Thanks for your cooperation and assistance. If you know of any other agency within your state or
international

contacts that you feel would provide information that would imp