TOWARDS IMPLEMENTING ROAD SAFETY INSPECTION ( ) IN MALAYSIA ROAD SAFETY INSPECTION IR. Dr. MUHAMMAD MARIZWAN BIN ABDUL MANAN Road Safety Engineering and Environment Research Center (REER) Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (MIROS) marizwan@miros.gov.my 1 APRIL 2019 ROAD SAFETY INSPECTION
WHAT DO THEY HAVE IN COMMON? 2 Why are our roads not being inspected regularly? ROAD SAFETY INSPECTION
WHAT IS RSI? • Road Safety Inspection (RSI) is a systematic and internationally recognized road safety inspection procedure by the PIARC (World Road Congress), under the Technical Committee of PIARC (TC 3.1) • A Road Safety Inspection (RSI) is a systematic, on site review, conducted by expert(s), of an existing road or section of road to identify hazardous conditions, faults and deficiencies that may lead to serious road crash • RSI’s aim • Remove or minimize the likelihood of a crash and its severity . • Identify features that may contribute to crashes, • Propose recommendations to improve the safety conditions based on inspection results. Source: • PIARC (2007), ROAD SAFETY INSPECTION GUIDELINE: For safety checks of existing roads • UNECE, 2018. Road safety audit and road safety inspection on the TEM network. UNECE Sustainable Transport Division, United Nation, Geneva. 3 ROAD SAFETY INSPECTION
ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE SAFETY MANAGEMENT 4 Road Safety Impact Road Safety Audit Road Safety Network Safety High Crash Assessment (RIA) (RSA) Inspection (RSI) Ranking (NSR) Concentration Section (Blackspot) Strategic comparative Independent detailed A systematic, on site review , A method for identifying, A method to identify, analysis of the impact of a systematic and technical conducted by expert(s), of analysing and classifying analyse and rank sections new road or a substantial safety check relating to the an existing road or section parts of the existing road of the road network which modification to the existing design characteristics of a of road to identify network according to their have been in operation for network on the safety road infrastructure project hazardous conditions, faults potential for safety more than 3 years and has performance of the road and covering all stages from and deficiencies that may development and accident a large number of fatal network planning to early operation lead to serious road crash cost savings crashes in proportion to the traffic flow have occurred Planned roads Operational roads PRO-ACTIVE (PREVENTION) RE-ACTIVE (CURE) 1 Planning “A road safety audit (RSA) and a road safety inspection (RSI) are used to test the safety level of 2 3 Design Data the road infrastructure. The RSA tests the design of Gathering 4 Construction new roads or the reconstruction of existing roads , & Review whereas the RSI is used for testing existing roads .” Data feeds into Road Safety Audit Source: 1. DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL No. 2008/96 ON ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE SAFETY MANAGEMENT 2. Ripcord-Iserest, 2005. Road safety inspections: Best practice and implementation plan. Road Infrastructure Safety Protection - Core-Research and Development for Road Safety in Europe, Germany. ROAD SAFETY INSPECTION
RSA & RSI IMPLEMENTATION BY OTHER COUNTRIES 5 ROAD SAFETY AUDIT RSI Stage 1: Stage 2: Stage 4: Stage 5: Road Safety Planning Stage 3: Country Preliminary Construction Operational / Inspection and Detail Design Design / Pre-opening Existing (RSI) Feasibility Malaysia, Thailand ✔︐ ✔︐ ✔︐ ✔︐ ✔︐ ✔︐ ✔︐ ✔︐ ✔︐ ✔︐ Denmark ✔︐ ✔︐ ✔︐ ✔︐ ✔︐ ✔︐ ✔︐ ✔︐ ✔︐ ✔︐ United Kingdom ✔︐ ✔︐ ✔︐ ✔︐ ✔︐ ✔︐ ✔︐ ✔︐ ✔︐ ✔︐ Australia & United State of America ✔︐ ✔︐ ✔︐ ✔︐ ✔︐ ✔︐ ✔︐ ✔︐ European Union, Norway, Sweden, ✔︐ ✔︐ ✔︐ ✔︐ ✔︐ ✔︐ ✔︐ ✔︐ Austria Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, ✔︐ ✔︐ ✔︐ ✔︐ ✔︐ ✔︐ ✔︐ ✔︐ Turkey Source: 1. DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL No. 2008/96 ON ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE SAFETY MANAGEMENT 2. PIARC (2007), ROAD SAFETY INSPECTION GUIDELINE: For safety checks of existing roads 3. VTI (2001), Traffic Safety on Three Continents, Proceeding for VTI Konferens 18A – 2001 4. Rune, E., 2006. Road safety inspection: Safety effects and best practice guidlines European Commission; Research Council of Norway. ROAD SAFETY INSPECTION
RSA AND RSI CHARACTERISTICS Issues Road Safety Audit (Stage 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5) Road Safety Inspection Location New road project Existing roads Personnel Independent, qualified auditor or team lead Independent, qualified inspectors/road safety experts by an auditor or team lead by an inspector Qualification Civil engineering – Road Traffic Engineer Interdisciplinary - Civil, Biomechanical, Psychologist, Social Science, etc. Reporting Audit the project by road standards and Inspect on road safety problems on the existing road • • guidelines and potential crash for all type of road users and suggest improvements. occurrence and may or may not suggest May be thematic and may be prioritized • improvement to the designer Inspect on road traffic environment and road user • behaviour and potential crash occurrence. Duration RSA duration is according to the road RSI is an on-going process , with roads being subject to project schedule . It ends after 6 month of re-inspection at regular intervals the road opening Cost and Absorb from project cost - Cost by stage of May be from operational / maintenance cost funds audit Involvement 1) Client, 2) Designer, 3) RS-Auditor 1) Client, 2) RS-Inspector Crash data May or may not use data on road crashes, but good to have as reference or weightage Source: 1. DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL No. 2008/96 ON ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE SAFETY MANAGEMENT 2. Ripcord-Iserest, 2005. Road safety inspections: Best practice and implementation plan. Road Infrastructure Safety Protection - Core- Research and Development for Road Safety in Europe, Germany. 6 ROAD SAFETY INSPECTION
WHY DO WE NEED RSI? In every third crash, the existing road environment has some considerable influence. The roads were designed and constructed some decades ago for less amount of traffic and a slower car fleet . With the Inspector expert knowledge and with systematic RSI approach, it is possible to reduce the number and the severity of traffic crashes the of existing roads. J.Treat et al, Tri-Level Study of the Causes of Traffic Accidents, 1979, Washington DC Due to technological developments and new technical standards, existing road equipment may become obsolete , its replacement being necessary. Source: 1. DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL No. 2008/96 ON ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE SAFETY MANAGEMENT 2. Ripcord-Iserest, 2005. Road safety inspections: Best practice and There is strong evidence that such inspections are highly cost- implementation plan. Road Infrastructure Safety Protection - Core- Research and Development for Road Safety in Europe, Germany. effective . Saving of only one human life per year in an inspected road section, the resulting benefit of the RSI would be much higher than the relevant cost. 8 ROAD SAFETY INSPECTION
A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS?? 9 ROAD SAFETY INSPECTION
THE WAY FORWARD FOR RSI IN MALAYSIA 11 ROAD SAFETY INSPECTION
WAY FORWARD FOR RSI Jabatan Standard Malaysia • MIROS intends to make RSI as one of its operations; to inspect the existing road safety level. • To ensure that RSI is recognized and widely accepted by various parties, MIROS intends to be recognized by the Department of Standards Malaysia (JSM) as an accredited inspection body under the Malaysian Inspection Bodies Accreditation Scheme (MIBAS), scheme using the benchmarking of the PIARC. • MIBAS (MS ISO / IEC 17020 (ILAC P15: 07/2016) is a unified national inspection body accreditation scheme and its scope of accreditation goes beyond multiple disciplines. 12 ROAD SAFETY INSPECTION
LEVEL OF ROAD SAFETY INSPECTOR Chief Road Safety Senior Road Inspector Safety (CRS-I) Inspector Road Safety (SRS-I) Inspector (RS-I) Trainee Road Safety Inspector (TRS-I) 13 ROAD SAFETY INSPECTION
MIROS AND RSI • Ever since establishment, MIROS Year Expressway Federal State PBT Private Total have been conducting 188 RSA- 2008 2 0 0 3 0 5 Stage 5 or RSI on various type of roads in Malaysia and there were 2009 1 2 1 3 0 7 many client and public authorities 2010 1 0 1 2 0 4 involved. 2011 2 2 0 2 0 6 2012 11 8 1 5 1 26 • MIROS has 2013 5 7 9 6 1 28 No Position Number 2014 5 7 5 13 0 30 1 Chief Road Safety Inspector 1 2015 6 14 3 6 0 29 2 Senior Road Safety Inspector 9 2016 4 5 2 7 0 18 3 Road Safety Inspector 2 2017 2 3 3 8 0 16 4 Trainee Road Safety Inspector 9 2018 9 0 2 8 0 19 TOTAL 48 48 27 63 2 188 14 ROAD SAFETY INSPECTION
AN INSPECTION TEAM CONSISTS OF… 15 One (1) CRS-I Advisor One (1) SRS-I / RS-I Leader One (1) SRS-I / RS-I / TRS-I Inspector Two (2) RS-T Technicians ROAD SAFETY INSPECTION
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