What is a Road Safety Audit?

A Road Safety Audit (RSA) is defined by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Road Safety Audits Guidelines as "a formal safety performance examination of an existing or future road or intersection by an independent audit team". The RSA is a way of doing business to identify road safety issues as well as opportunities for safety improvements for all road users. The RSA includes the following elements:

• It is performed by an independent team
• It is performed by a multi-disciplined team
• It considers all potential road users
• It accounts for road user capabilities and limitations
• It generates a formal report
• It requires a response from the project owner

In summary, the RSA is a proactive, formal examination that focuses on road safety, which is conducted by a multi-disciplinary team independent of the project owner (or the requester of the study). The audit team must be adequately qualified individually and as a team. The RSA is qualitative in nature, although crash data, traffic data, and analyses are necessary, and the safety of all road users and facilities are considered. The RSA report includes average daily traffic volume counts, manual turning movement counts and level-of-service analysis, crash data compilation and analyses, and intersection warrant analyses for traffic signal and multi-way stop control implementation. The project owner will take the initiative for action and implementation of the proposed recommendations made by the support team. The recommendations will consist of a number of alternatives (or combination of actions) including short term, less expensive actions and long term, more costly alternatives. OCPC is available to assist with acquiring state and federal grants and funding for projects, as projects draw on a combination of funding sources.

YEAR	TOWN	LOCATION	PDF	MAP
2016	Brockton	Route 123, West Street, Forest Street, and West Side Plaza Drive
2016	Pembroke	Route 53 at Route 139 and Route 14
2016	Stoughton	Washington Street (Route 138) at Central Street
2015	Brockton	Crescent Street Intersection Improvement Project
2015	Whitman	Bedford Street (Route 18) at Auburn Street (Route 14) and Temple Street (Route 27)
2014	Abington	Chestnut Street at Hancock Street
2014	Avon	Harrison Boulevard Corridor
2014	East Bridgewater	Route 18 from Whitman Street to Central Square
2014	Hanson	Main Street (Route 27) at Franklin Street and Elm Street
2014	Pembroke	Washington Street (Route 53) at Pleasant Street
2014	Plymouth	Samoset Street at Pilgrim Trail and Marc Drive
2014	Stoughton	Bay Road at Boulder Lane
2014	Whitman	South Avenue (Route 27) at Franklin Street and Pleasant Street
2013	Abington/Brockton	North Quincy Street at Boundary Avenue and Chestnut Street
2013	East Bridgewater	Belmont Street at Summer Street
2012	Avon	East Main at East Spring and West Spring (2012)
2012	Brockton	West Elm Street
2012	West Bridgewater	East and West Center Streets at North and South Main Streets
2011	Abington	Bedford Street (Route 18) at Randolph Street (Route 139)
2011	Brockton	Belmont Street (Route 123) at VA Hospital and Manley Street
2011	East Bridgewater	Plymouth Street (Route 106) at Washington Street
2010	Easton	Foundry Street (Route 106) at Turnpike Street (Route 138)
2009	Brockton	Main Street (Route 28)
2009	Brockton	Belmont Street at Linwood Street and Lorraine Avenue
2009	Easton	Five Corners
2009	Easton	Foundry Street (Route 106) at Prospect Street
2009	Easton	Washington Street (Route 138) at Elm Street
2009	Easton	Washington Street (Route 138) at Union Street
2009	Stoughton	Canton Street (Route 27) at School Street
2008	East Bridgewater	Thatcher Street
2008	Stoughton, Avon, Brockton, West Bridgewater, Bridgewater	Route 24