Directive 2008/96/EC of the European Parliament and of the CouncilShow full title

3. Elements of evaluation for expert teams’ site visits: U.K.

(a)

a description of the road section;

(b)

a reference to possible previous reports on the same road section;

(c)

the analysis of possible accident reports;

(d)

the number of accidents, of fatalities and of severely injured persons in the three previous years;

(e)

a set of potential remedial measures for realisation within different timescales considering for example:

• removing or protecting fixed roadside obstacles,

• reducing speed limits and intensifying local speed enforcement,

• improving visibility under different weather and light conditions,

• improving safety condition of roadside equipment such as road restraint systems,

• improving coherence, visibility, readability and position of road markings (incl. application of rumble strips), signs and signals,

• protecting against rocks falling, landslips and avalanches,

• improving grip/roughness of pavements,

• redesigning road restraint systems,

• providing and improving median protection,

• changing the overtaking layout,

• improving junctions, including road/rail level crossings,

• changing the alignment,

• changing width of road, adding hard shoulders,

• installing traffic management and control systems,

• reducing potential conflict with vulnerable road users,

• upgrading the road to current design standards,

• restoring or replacing pavements,

• using intelligent road signs,

• improving intelligent transport systems and telematics services for interoperability, emergency and signage purposes.