Recommended safety measures for application on urban roads in the short term

Ten road safety countermeasures are recommended for application on non-motorway interurban roads in Europe in the short term. The selection was mainly based on the answers to a questionnaire that were given by the Member States of the European Union. A distinction is made between countermeasures on three levels: analyses, traffic engineering and traffic operation. On the analysing level are recommended: road, traffic and accident data collection; road safety inspection; black spot analysis and treatment; road safety impact assessment (RIA). On the traffic engineering level are recommended: traffic calming on thoroughfares through small towns and villages; building roundabouts instead of intersections; safety barriers at hazardous locations; restricting the possibility of overtaking. On the operational level are recommended: consistency in the signing and marking of (sharp) bends; alternative routing of slow traffic. As far as possible, some rough indication is given of the cost-effectiveness of the countermeasures. This report was compiled by SWOV Institute for Road Safety Research, The Netherlands, on behalf of the European Road Safety Federation (ERSF