Ingår i: EPAM 2012: Malmö, Sweden, 5–7 September: 4th European pavement and asset management conference

This paper presents the final results for the research project, “IRUMS – Safer urban roads” already presented in EPAM3 when it was just starting. The aim was reached and a procedure was developed for the explicit consideration of safety issues in the decision making process of urban transportation networks and in the allocation of resources for the physical renewal network. More specifically, the criteria of the selection of dangerous urban sites (areas or sections) were defined as well as the procedure of the selection of efficient infrastructure corrective safety measures. Five years road accident records, data on road infrastructure characteristics and traffic and land use information were collected and were managed by a Geographic Information System and inside the GIS a support tool was created that can complete the missing analysis in the database and help link the analysis to the proposed corrective measure possible to be implemented in a given location. Knowing where accidents occur and in what circumstances contributed to these accidents is sometimes the key to finding solutions to minimize casualties and deaths on the road. Finally, a model was structured to help the decision making between several possible measures, considering the common variables in this type of decision. The model was applied to all the intersections analyzed and tested for different scenarios. To address the particular characteristics of the accidents, which can be significant in the choices of the measures to be implemented, certain alert levels were created in order to draw attention to the analysis of the location, therefore ensuring that all fields of the database are taken into consideration.