HIGHWAY SAFETY AUDITING - UPDATE (2005-2009)

This issue of Current Topics includes over 75 abstracts of reports, conference papers, books and journal articles which focus on the area of highway safety auditing. Subjects include audits of junctions, the vicinity of schools, cycling facilities, accident locations and traffic signs, as well as of entire highways. Several papers consider audits from the perspective of particular road user groups such as pedestrians and motorcyclists. Software and instructions developed to assist in road safety audits are described. These items have been selected from the material added to the Transport Research Laboratory's Library Database between 2005 and 2009. Much of the relevant English language published literature from the UK, USA, Australia and Europe is included; some of the non-UK literature is included courtesy of the OECD International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) database.