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2.3 Summary of Literature ReviewThe conventional highway safety improvement, safety management, and riskmanagement programs examined in this literature review require a substantial amount offunding, personnel, and expertise. Due to limited resources, most local governmentagencies do not implement these programs.While some tailoring of the road safety audit already has been completed, a safetyprocedure for road safety audit review on local rural roads is still needed. There alsoappears to be a lack of research on what level of expertise is needed to perform an RSARon the local rural roads. This research project assessed the combination of auditor skillneeded and how best to classify the safety deficiency in terms of urgency ofimplementing an improvement. Given the limited resources available to rural localagencies, the feasibility of conducting RSARs by using a team of independent safetyspecialists also is probably not practical.42
CHAPTER 3 - METHODOLOGY3.1 OverviewThe two major issues raised by the literature review are, first, the need to developa simple yet effective RSAR program for local rural roads, and second, the need to assessthe level of expertise needed to perform an RSAR. To address these issues, researchbegan by developing a preliminary road safety audit procedure. This trial procedure wasbased on the classification, checklists, and approach previously developed by Wilson andTate; 1 and the road safety audit programs developed in Australia and Denmark. 4,15Different audit groups applied the trial audit in the field. The focus groups conducted theaudit and provided recommendations on the procedure. No training, except for a briefexplanation of the proposed RSAR program, was given to different participants in thetrial audit in County 1. The control group was familiar with and had conducted audits.After the trial audit in County 1, and as a result of the recommendations, a newRSAR data collection procedure was developed. One of the recommendations was to addanother major rural road classification. The audit classification approach was revised andthe same focus groups tested the revised final audit process in County 2. Again the focusgroups were encouraged to make comments about the program while performing theaudit itself. The final recommended rural local road RSAR process is contained inAppendix A with the revised recommended rural road functional classification system.The purpose of the recommended RSAR is to provide a consistent tool, which is easy-touseby any auditor.To answer the second issue of this research, “needed expertise,” the traffic safetydeficiency data collected in the audits, and the audit reports written by members of the43
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