Experiences with the implementation of the EU Directive on road infrastructure safety management in Hungary

Abstract

The EU has adopted the directive on road infrastructure safety management in 2008. To comply with this directive, the Hungarian parliament and the government made legal actions and technical guidelines were also developed. The first guideline on Road Safety Impact Assessments in Hungary was published in 2010; an update of this was completed in 2015. Road Safety Audits have a longer history in Hungary. The first related Hungarian guideline was developed in 2004. Using experiences of early audits, the guideline was updated in 2009. A revision of this method was elaborated in 2016. For Road Safety Inspections a special guideline was developed in 2013. This guideline was also updated in 2016. Ranking of high accident concentration sections has already been conducted in Hungary for more than 20 years. Network safety ranking is a new and a more resource-consuming procedure. This paper describes the recent methods, re-defined in 2016.