Safe Roads

The independent consortium for the assessment of European roads, EuroRAP, identifies the road sections with the highest accident risk. In this fourteenth edition, with the participation of the RACC, it has become obvious again, that some road sections of the Spanish and Catalan road network need to be improved, since 25% of the conventional roads have sections with a high or very high risk of road accidents.

The study shows that three of the ten sections with the highest concentration of accidents of heavy vehicles are on the N-340 road. One year after alerting about the high road accident rate on the N-340 and proposing immediate solutions to reduce it, the RACC has reported the situation again, proposing the diversion of heavy transport vehicles to the highway, as it is a solution that is easy to implement and with immediate effects.

On the other hand, the Foundation continued analysing other aspects of mobility infrastructures, such as the orientation sign-posting in Lleida and in different villages of the Costa Brava, as well as the overall coherence of speed-limit signposting.

The improvement of the signposting and the condition of the roads are the aspects that appear more often in the complaints and suggestions made by users of Vía Directa, a service offered by the Foundation since 1996. The handling and solution of more than 6,000 complaints in 20 years has consolidated the Vía Directa service as an open window of the Foundation for all users. As a result of it, the Department of Territory and Sustainability of the Catalan Government and the Foundation have signed a collaboration agreement to develop an App for mobile devices with the aim of gathering and handling the complaints and suggestions made by users about incidences on the roads.

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ISSN 2013-4371