These proactive solutions offer the promise of using surrogate measures of safety, rather than crashes, to inform and guide safety investment and management decisions, with the intent to deliver safer operations.

Widespread adoption of automated video-based traffic management systems can revolutionise the way we manage transport networks .

Well-known limitations with the quality of crash data and crash-based safety analysis methods is giving rise to the use of alternate measures of safety such as the presence of ‘critical’ traffic conflicts, or near misses. The traffic conflict technique has gained considerable popularity as a proactive surrogate tool for road safety analysis . Compared to crashes, conflicts occur much more frequently, and as such are

For more than 25 years, the modern road safety profession has relied on police reported crashes to evaluate crash risk, implement countermeasures, and evaluate their effectiveness. While a great deal of excellent methodologies have been developed to make the best use of crash data, their limitations are no longer acceptable in light of the massive technological advances available today.