Abstract:
The four workshop themes were: assessment practices, safety systems, best practices, and other road safety products and issues. The group of papers concerned with assessment practices explains the differences between the European Normative (EN) 1317 and the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 350–AASHTO "Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware" (MASH) testing requirements and discusses solutions for further collaboration. The papers concerned with safety systems discuss various aspects of safety barriers, including their location and test speeds, and the elimination of noncrashworthy terminals. The third group of papers explain best practices, noting that one solution may not suit all practices in all countries. Examples of best practices in different countries are presented. Under the final theme, road safety products, the authors describe new products and treatments that may help to improve road safety, as well as the use of simulation models. Overall the papers presented at the workshop provide a comprehensive view of road safety engineering in Europe, the United States, and Australia. The papers have value beyond the meeting in Milan; they should have value to practitioners worldwide.
