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Audit Report

The report produced by the Road Safety

 

Audit Team

Describing the road safety related problems identified by the team and the recommended solutions to those problems. A team that works together on all aspects of the Road Safety Audit, independent of the Design Team and approved for a particular audit by the Project Sponsor on behalf of the Overseeing Organisation. The team shall comprise a minimum of two persons with appropriate levels of training, skills and experience in Road Safety Engineering work and/or Collision Investigation. The members of the Audit Team may be drawn from within the Design Organisation or from another body or consultancy.

 

Audit Team Leader

A person with the appropriate training, skills and experience who is approved for a particular audit by the Project Sponsor on behalf of the Overseeing Organisation. The Audit Team Leader has overall responsibility for carrying out the audit, managing the Audit Team and certifying the report.

 

Audit Team Member

A member of the Audit Team with the appropriate training, skills and experience necessary for the audit of a specific scheme reporting to the Audit Team Leader.

 

Audit Team Observer

A person with the appropriate training, skills and experience accompanying the Audit Team to observe and gain experience of the audit procedure. The Audit Team Observer is encouraged to contribute actively to the audit process and will often help to contribute to the report.

 

Design Organisation

The organisation(s) commissioned to undertake the various phases of scheme preparation. This is often the Local Authority or consultancy requesting the Road Safety Audit.

 

Design Team

The group within the Design Organisation undertaking the various phases of scheme preparation.

 

Design Team Leader

A person within the Design Team responsible for managing the scheme design and coordinating the input of the various design disciplines.

 

Director

The Director in the Overseeing Organisation with overall responsibility for the Highway Improvement Scheme.

 

Exception Report or Designers Response Report

A report from the project engineer, design team or project officer in response to the Road Safety Audit.

 

Highway Improvement Schemes

All works that involve construction of new highway or permanent change to the existing highway layout or features. This includes changes to road layout, kerbs, signs and markings, lighting, signalling, drainage, landscaping and installation of roadside equipment.

 

Interim Road Safety Audit

The application of Road Safety Audit to the whole or part of a Highway Improvement Scheme at any time during the preliminary and detailed design stages. Interim Road Safety Audit is not mandatory or a substitute for the formal Stage 1, 2 and 3 Safety Audits.

 

Interim Road Safety Audit File

A file containing copies of all communications between the Design Team and Audit Team and the Project Sponsor and the Audit Team. The file is only required for Highway Improvement Schemes where the Audit Team undertakes ‘Interim Road Safety Audit’

 

Overseeing Organisation

The highway authority responsible for the Highway Improvement Scheme to be audited.

 

Project Sponsor

A person within the Overseeing Organisation responsible for ensuring the progression of a scheme in accordance with policy and procedures of the Overseeing Organisation, and ensuring compliance with the requirements of this Standard.

 

Road Safety Audit

The evaluation of Highway Improvement Schemes during design and at the end of construction (preferably before the scheme is open to traffic and users) to identify potential road safety problems that may have an impact upon the highway and to suggest measures to eliminate or mitigate those problems. The audit process includes the collision monitoring of Highway Improvement Schemes to identify any road safety problems that may occur after opening. This Stage 4 Audit will include the analysis and reporting of 12 and 36 months of completed personal injury collision data from when the scheme became operational.

 

Road Safety Engineering

The design and implementation of physical changes to the road network intended to reduce the number and severity of accidents involving road users, drawing on the results of Accident Investigations.

 

Specialist Advisor

A person approved by the Project Sponsor, to provide specialist independent advice to the Audit Team should the scheme include complex features outside the experience of the Audit Team Members, e.g. a complex traffic signal controlled junction

 

TERN

The Trans-European Road Network (TERN) was defined by EU Council Decision 93/629/EEC of October 29 1993. It is a project to improve the internal road infrastructure of the European Union (EU). The TERN is one of several Trans-European Transport Networks and as laid out by Article 9 of Decision 661/2010/EU, includes motorways and high-quality roads, whether existing, new or to be adapted which:

 

• Play an important role in long-distance traffic; or

• Bypass the main urban centres on the routes identified by the network; or

• Provide interconnection with other modes of transport; or

Link landlocked and peripheral regions to central regions of the European Union

England
 

• The total England TERN network is approximately 2500 miles.

• Approximately 2470 miles (about 50%) of 5000 miles of Highways Agency motorway and trunk road network has TERN status.

• Approximately 30 miles (less than 1%) of the 183,000 miles of Local Authority road network has TERN status.

Wales

 

• Approximately 35% of the 1050 miles of Welsh motorway and trunk road network has TERN status.

Scotland
 

Approximately 50% of the 2000 miles of Scottish motorway and trunk road network has TERN status.

Northern Ireland
 

• Approximately 35% of the 800 miles of Northern Ireland motorway and trunk road network has TERN status.