ADEPT & CIHT released the results of their research into route safety behaviour and launched their new guidance for practitioners at a sell-out conference in London on Thursday 10 March.

During the past ten years route safety intervention has emerged as one of the key developments in delivering road casualty reduction.  However, there has been wide variation in development, experience and evaluation of route safety management schemes.

This latest research was commissioned by ADEPT in 2010 to identify reliable and consistent measurement of behaviours that will improve practitioners’ understanding of how drivers and riders respond to the road environment, as well as provide a means of assessing the degree of success of route safety intervention measures.

The new guidance explains why behaviours should be monitored, shows which behaviours are relevant to route safety risk and how they can be measured.  The guidance features case studies of best practice and how to design interventions so that success can be defined and evidence gathered. 

The final research report is available here:

Using behavioural measures to evaluate route safety schemes