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The treatment of crash locations involves the application of road safety engineering knowledge and experience to make roads safer after crashes occur.
This program will explain the step-by-step process of how to: identify crash locations; diagnose the crash problem and its causes; select a countermeasure which targets the problem; and design a safe remedial treatment and establish its cost-effectiveness. The workshop acknowledges and follows the current Road Safety paradigm, the Safe System approach. Based on the 2nd Edition of the Guide to Road Safety Part 8: Treatment of Crash Locations, this workshop will incorporate the results of crash data analysis and other resource material for the relevant jurisdiction.
Participants are required to bring a copy of the Austroads Guide to Road Safety Part 8: Treatment of Crash Locations.
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The workshop is primarily aimed at, but not limited to:
- Traffic and road safety engineers
- Road safety practitioners
- Road design consultants; traffic consultants
- Engineers requiring specialist training in crash investigation and treatment
- Local government engineers and road safety officers
- State Road Authority engineers who deal with black spot investigations
- Engineers looking to develop specialist skills for career development
- Police involved in crash investigations
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- Reactive, proactive and predictive components within a road safety strategy
- Providing a Safe System
- Road safety engineering
- Human factors
- Police investigation
- Identifying crash locations
- Diagnosing the crash problem at the site
- Selecting an effective solution
- Crash costs
- Economic appraisal
- Monitoring and evaluations
Day 1 will focus on:
- Current trends, patterns and challenges in road safety
- Overview: Road safety engineering and crash investigation
- Components of the traffic system
- Steps in the crash location treatment process
- Sourcing and understanding crash data
- Identifying crash locations
- Diagnosing the crash problems at a site
- Diagnosing the crash problems
- Converting a crash problem into a solution
- countermeasure principles Solutions and percentage effectiveness
Day 2 will focus on:
- Converting the crash problem into a solution
- Selecting an effective solution, including available tools and guidance
- Is a yearly increase in crashes significant?
- Writing the crash location report
- Crash costs
- Undertake a case study economic appraisal
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Putting it all together