Accurate road safety level assessment for effective road safety inspection

The article presents a new approach to safety level assessment by conducting road safety inspections. The current methodology for safety level assessment by conducting road safety inspections is insufficient because it uses an inaccurate safety level indicator that prevents an accurate comparison of localities according to the safety level. A “new” methodology, developed at the Czech Technical University, Faculty of Transportation Sciences, uses an improved description of the safety level by using a combined safety level indicator, which contains an indicator of the traffic environment risk level and an indicator of the road users' behavior. The new methodology determines the procedures for accurate comparison of localities according to the safety level, for estimating the safety level in a post-remediation state, and for assessing the efficiency of the proposed remedial measures to facilitate the selection of localities for remediation.