Safer Roads: Comparisons Between Road Assessment Program and Composite Road Safety Index Method

In most countries, crash statistics have becoming very crucial in evaluating road’s safety level. In Malaysia, these data are very important in deciding crash-prone areas known as black spot where specific road improvements plan will be proposed. However due to the unavailability of reliable crash d...

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Main Author:	Intan Suhana, Mohd Razelan
Format:	Article
Language:	English English
Published:	EDP Sciences 2017
Subjects:	TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
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spelling	ump-175452018-02-08T06:46:07Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/17545/ Safer Roads: Comparisons Between Road Assessment Program and Composite Road Safety Index Method Intan Suhana, Mohd Razelan TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) In most countries, crash statistics have becoming very crucial in evaluating road’s safety level. In Malaysia, these data are very important in deciding crash-prone areas known as black spot where specific road improvements plan will be proposed. However due to the unavailability of reliable crash data in many developing countries, appropriate road maintenance measures are facing great troubles. In light of that, several proactive methods in defining road’s safety level such as Road Assessment Program (RAP) have emerged. This research aim to compare two proactive methods that have been tested in Malaysian roads ; road assessment program and road environment risk index which was developed based on composite index theory in defining road’s safety level. Composite road environment risk index was combining several crucial environment indicators, assigning weight and aggregating the individual index together to form a single value representing the road’s safety level. Based on the results, it can be concluded that both road assessment program and composite road environment risk index are contradicted in six different ways such as type of speed used, type of analysis used and their final outcomes. However, with an aim to promote safer roads, these two methods can be used concurrently as the outcomes in both methods seems to fulfil each other’s gap very well. EDP Sciences 2017 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/17545/1/Safer%20Roads-%20Comparisons%20Between%20Road%20Assessment%20Program%20and%20Composite%20Road%20Safety%20Index%20Method.pdf application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/17545/2/Safer%20Roads-%20Comparisons%20Between%20Road%20Assessment%20Program%20and%20Composite%20Road%20Safety%20Index%20Method%201.pdf Intan Suhana, Mohd Razelan (2017) Safer Roads: Comparisons Between Road Assessment Program and Composite Road Safety Index Method. MATEC Web of Conferences (08005). pp. 1-9. ISSN 2261-236X http://www.matec-conferences.org/articles/matecconf/abs/2017/17/matecconf_iscee2017_08005/matecconf_iscee2017_08005.html doi: 10.1051/matecconf/20171030
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description	In most countries, crash statistics have becoming very crucial in evaluating road’s safety level. In Malaysia, these data are very important in deciding crash-prone areas known as black spot where specific road improvements plan will be proposed. However due to the unavailability of reliable crash data in many developing countries, appropriate road maintenance measures are facing great troubles. In light of that, several proactive methods in defining road’s safety level such as Road Assessment Program (RAP) have emerged. This research aim to compare two proactive methods that have been tested in Malaysian roads ; road assessment program and road environment risk index which was developed based on composite index theory in defining road’s safety level. Composite road environment risk index was combining several crucial environment indicators, assigning weight and aggregating the individual index together to form a single value representing the road’s safety level. Based on the results, it can be concluded that both road assessment program and composite road environment risk index are contradicted in six different ways such as type of speed used, type of analysis used and their final outcomes. However, with an aim to promote safer roads, these two methods can be used concurrently as the outcomes in both methods seems to fulfil each other’s gap very well.
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title	Safer Roads: Comparisons Between Road Assessment Program and Composite Road Safety Index Method
title_short	Safer Roads: Comparisons Between Road Assessment Program and Composite Road Safety Index Method
title_full	Safer Roads: Comparisons Between Road Assessment Program and Composite Road Safety Index Method
title_fullStr	Safer Roads: Comparisons Between Road Assessment Program and Composite Road Safety Index Method
title_full_unstemmed	Safer Roads: Comparisons Between Road Assessment Program and Composite Road Safety Index Method
title_sort	safer roads: comparisons between road assessment program and composite road safety index method
publisher	EDP Sciences
publishDate	2017
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