RAP Infrastructure Safety Management Tools

iRAP and its partners have developed a suite of tools that use the iRAP methodology to support infrastructure safety management globally and locally.

Tools developed with partners that use the iRAP methodology are known as RAP apps or Made Safer by iRAP apps. The iRAP methodology and related tools are overseen by the Global Technical Committee (GTC) and managed within the Innovation Framework.

The tools support achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), the Global Plan for Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030 and Global Road Safety Performance Targets 3 and 4.

The tools can be used at all stages of a road’s lifecycle:

– Planning: includes strategy, policy and project concepts.
– Early design: includes feasibility and concept designs.
– Detailed design: includes final designs.
– Build (during construction): when traffic uses a road under construction.
– Open to traffic: after construction is complete.
– Maintaining and operating: normal operation of the road.

Search Protocol	Tool/Protocol	Description
Crash data	Crash data
Crash data	Crash Risk Mapping	Uses detailed crash data to produce maps showing the risk arising from the interaction of road users, vehicles and the road environment.
Crash data	DRIVER	An open-source crash data system developed by the World Bank that can link with Risk Mapping and Star Ratings.
Infrastructure ratings	Infrastructure ratings
Infrastructure ratings	Star Ratings	An objective measure of the level of safety ‘built-in’ to the road for vehicle occupants, motorcyclists, bicyclists, and pedestrians.
Infrastructure ratings	Star Rating for Schools	An evidence-based tool for measuring, managing and communicating the risk children are exposed to as pedestrians.
Trauma estimation	Trauma estimation
Trauma estimation	Fatal and Serious Injury (FSI) Estimates	Provides estimates of FSIs along each segment of an existing road or design and supports the prioritisation of investment.
Trauma estimation	Australian National Risk Assessment Model (ANRAM)	Uses iRAP Star Ratings and crash data to provide enhanced fatality and serious injury estimates for Australian roads.
Investment planning	Investment planning
Investment planning	Safer Roads Investment Plans	Draws on data underpinning Star Ratings and FSI Estimates to determine the most cost-effective road safety upgrades.
Design	Design
Design	Star Rating for Designs (SR4D)	A package of tools, knowledge products, support and other initiatives so that roads are built safe, right from the start.
Network scanning	Network scanning
Network scanning	EuroRAP RPS 1.0	Based on homogeneous sections and a limited set of road attributes that provide protection to car occupants.
Network scanning	ThaiRAP Lite Star Ratings	Developed and used in Thailand with a subset of the Star Rating methodology and linked to a road asset database.
Network scanning	Austroads Stereotypes	Illustrate Star Ratings for a range of typical cross-section and operating speed scenarios on the Australian road network.
Performance tracking	Performance tracking
Performance tracking	Performance Tracking	Uses Star Rating and Crash Risk Mapping to measure changes in road safety performance over time.
Policy and management	Policy and management
Policy and management	Vaccines for Roads	Includes business cases for investment, examples of how crashes affect real people and statistics on the world’s roads.
Policy and management	Road Safety Toolkit	The Road Safety Toolkit provides free information on the causes and prevention of serious road crashes.
Policy and management	Key Performance Indicators	Global Infrastructure KPIs provide the policy road map and recommended metrics for measuring road safety success.
Policy and management	Road Safety Country Profiles	This GRSF guide gives an assessment on the magnitude and complexity of road safety challenges faced by low-and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Enabling software	Enabling software
Enabling software	ViDA	iRAP’s free-to-air online platform is the data processing engine for Star Ratings, FSI Estimates and Investment Plans, hosting data and analysing results, and the portal for iRAP’s enhanced tools including SR4D and the Star Rating Demonstrator.
Enabling software	Star Rating Demonstrator	The Star Rating Demonstrator is a tool which can be used for small assessments of existing roads or road designs and provides a simple way to understand the iRAP models.
Enabling software	SR4D Web App	The SR4D Web App is a tool, supported by the World Bank, to assist with Star Rating designs and can be used for small to medium assessments of existing roads or road designs.
Enabling software	NetRisk2	iRAP Centre of Excellence ARRB has launched this tool that brings together iRAP Star Ratings and the Australian National Risk Assessment Model (ANRAM) using AusRAP data as an additional infrastructure risk assessment option.

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RAP Infrastructure Safety Management Tools

Crash data

Infrastructure ratings

Trauma estimation

Investment planning

Design

Network scanning

Performance tracking

Policy and management

Enabling software