The International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP) is dedicated to saving lives in low- and middle-income countries by promoting safer roads and safer road design. iRAP targets high-risk roads where large numbers of people are killed and seriously injured, and inspects them to identify where affordable programs of safety engineering can reduce deaths and serious injuries. iRAP generates and prioritizes large-scale, network-wide programs to ensure cost-efficiency and economically significant returns. iRAP provides a global methodology for inspection that can be used to measure the safety performance of roads in the absence of crash data. The methodology can also be used to track performance of roads, encouraging continuous improvements in safety performance. This article reports on the recent results from iRAP pilot inspections in Chile, Costa Rica, Malaysia and South Africa.
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