Road Safety

Details of Selected Projects

• Reviewing and updating road safety policy and institutional capacity building in road safety
• Preparing Road Safety Audit Manual, Road Safety Audit Instructor’s manual, Road Safety Audit Training Course Notes and Standard Road Safety Audit Report
• Developing a road safety strategy and audit program for Bhutan Government
• Reviewing Road Signs & Pavement Marking manual
• Prepared and presented road safety audit training course for local staff, including a National Road Safety Workshop
• Undertook road safety auditing of several projects including ADB’s ‘piggy-back’ Road Network Project

Westlink M7 Motorway Road Safety Audits (Abigroup - Leightons CPB Joint Venture)
The M7 Motorway is a 40 km long major urban motorway in western Sydney and forms part of the major arterial road network in the Sydney region. Samsa Consulting conducted road safety audits during the detailed design, traffic management schemes, local road projects and pre-opening stages for the entire M7 Motorway project including training for site engineers. Ongoing existing conditions audits and safety reviews are also being undertaken as part of the requirements to ensure safety is maintained along the motorway and associated shared path, the longest of its type in the Sydney area.

The road safety audit process included road safety planning, audit programming and education, various road safety assessments and advice with respect to both the main alignment of the motorway as well as local road works associated with the project. The project involved considerable road safety expertise, traffic planning and transport integration. The ongoing safety audits and reviews have focussed on the assessment of motorway and shared path hazards post-opening, and have included a shared path engineering risk assessment.

Sixth Road Project Capacity Building Component: Philippines Road Safety Strategy (Asian Development Bank - Philippines Government Department of Public Works & Highways)

The purpose of the project was to improve the traffic accident prevention program of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) in the Philippines. Priority was aimed at building the capacity of the DPWH to manage road safety as a key organisational business function. This would provide sustainability for the implementation of road safety throughout the DPWH. Study tasks included:

• Organising and conducting the Road Safety Infrastructure Improvement Investigations program of 35 hazardous sites throughout Philippines, including crash data analysis, site investigations, and recommendations of treatments and reports
• Setting up Hazardous Location Investigation policies and procedures for future use by DPWH personnel
• Reviewing and revising Road Signs and Pavement Marking manuals
• Preparing Road Safety Audit Handbook & Procedures manual
• Reviewing the National Road Safety Action Plan
• Conduct training on road safety audit procedures

Other Project Experience

• Road Safety Specialist (International) for the Jiangxi Ji'an Sustainable Urban Transport Project (ADB LOAN-3216 PRC) and the Ningxia Liupanshan Poverty Reduction Rural Road Development Project (ADB LOAN-3444 PRC), comprising road safety auditing and training.

• Preparation for legal counsel of numerous ‘expert’ witness reports pertaining to design, construction and maintenance of roads where fatality and/or serious injury had occurred including accident causation.

• Extensive range of Road Safety Audit projects: Stage 1 (Feasibility / Pre-Concept), Stage 2 (Concept Design), Stage 3 (Detailed Design), Stage 4 (Pre-Opening), Stage 5 (Post-Opening / Existing Conditions) and construction traffic management stage road safety audits as follows.

Feasibility / Pre-Concept (Stage 1)

-  Tabulam Bridge (4 Route Options) Bruxner Highway, Tabulam, NSW Northern Tablelands

-  Pacific Highway (SH10) between Oxley Highway and Kempsey, NSW Mid-North Coast

-  Pacific Highway (SH10) between Woolgoolga and Wells Crossing, NSW Mid-North Coast

-  Tillegra Dam Bypass Road, NSW Hunter Region

-  Waterfall Way (MR76), Marx Hill, Dorrigo Mountain (5 landslip sites)

Concept Design (Stage 2)

-  Bataan - Cavite Interlink Bridge (BCIB) Project, Luzon, Philippines (ADB LOAN-3886 PHI)

-  Belford Service Centre, New England Highway, Belford

-  New Windsor Bridge, Windsor, Western Sydney

-  Cowpasture Road Upgrade, Horningsea Park, Western Sydney

-  Avoca Drive Upgrade, Sun Valley Road to Bayside Drive, NSW Central Coast

-  Hume Highway/F5 Widening, Brooks Road to Narellan Road, South-Western Sydney

-  Pacific Highway (SH10) between South Kempsey and Eungai, NSW Mid-North Coast

-  Bridge over Nepean River (MR570), Yarramundi, Western Sydney

-  Federal Highway, ACT border to Sutton Rd (SH3), 5.8 km

-  New England Highway at Devils Pinch

-  Alpine Way, Thredbo (MR677)

Detailed Design (Stage 3)

-  Bataan - Cavite Interlink Bridge (BCIB) Project, Luzon, Philippines (ADB LOAN-3886 PHI)

-  Cebu - Cordova Link Expressway (CCLEX) Project, Cebu, Philippines

-  Sparks Road Upgrade, Warnervale

-  Pacific Highway Upgrade: Ballina Bypass, NSW North Coast

-  Prince Highway intersections, Figtree, NSW South Coast

-  Well Station Drive, Harrison (Australian Capital Territory)

-  Forestville & Castle Hill Strategic Bus Corridors, Sydney

-  Camden Valley Way, Cobbity Road to Narellan Road, Western Sydney

-  Camden Valley Way, Bernera Road to Cowpasture Road, Western Sydney

-  Westlink M7 Motorway, Western Sydney

-  F3 Freeway / Wyong Road Interchange, NSW Central Coast

-  Pacific Highway (SH10) between Anzac Road and Johnson Road, Tuggerah, NSW Central Coast

-  Wallarah Interchange, Swansea, NSW Central Coast

-  Moree Bypass, Moree

-  Federal Highway, Lake George Section (SH3)

Pre-Opening (Stage 4)

-  Great Western Highway: Hazelbrook to Woodford Upgrade

-  McCauley Street / Botany Road intersection, Botany

-  Cammeray Bus Layover & Miller Street Entry Ramp, Sydney

-  Westlink M7 Motorway, Western Sydney

-  Charles Street Extension, Parramatta

Post-Opening / Existing Conditions (Stage 5)

-  Gateway Motorway, Brisbane (25 km urban motorway including nine interchanges)

-  Bruxner Highway, Tabulam, NSW Northern Tablelands

-  Princes Hwy (SH1) between Wollongong and NSW–Victorian border (375 km)

-  North Coast Motorcycle Route Audits: Oxley Highway, Waterfall Way & Nimbin

-  The Coast Road, Ballina to Lennox Head, NSW North Coast

-  Putty Rd (MR503: 70 km), Mt Thorley Road to Putty Road turn-off

-  Great Western Hwy (SH5: 59 km), Bathurst to Lithgow

-  Picton Road / Mount Ousley Rd interchange (MR95), NSW South Coast

-  Lawrence Hargrave Drive (MR185: 19.8 km), NSW South Coast

-  Westlink M7 Motorway Hazard Review and Existing Conditions Road Safety Audits post-opening: review of motorway and shared path crash incidents, assessment of motorway and shared path hazards and identification of road safety issues.

Construction Stage / Traffic Management Plan audits

-  Newell Highway upgrade project including 12 project sites along the entire length of the highway through western NSW

-  WestConnex M4 East (Stage 1B): Inner Western Sydney

-  WestConnex M4 Widening (Stage 1A): Western Sydney

-  Pacific Highway Upgrade: Pimlico to Teven, NSW North Coast

-  Pacific Highway Upgrade: Tintenbar to Ewingsdale, NSW North Coast

-  M2 Motorway Widening Upgrade, North-Western Sydney

-  Pacific Highway Upgrade: Sapphire to Woolgoolga, NSW Mid-North Coast

-  Pacific Highway Upgrade: Kempsey Bypass, Kempsey, NSW Mid-North Coast

-  Pacific Highway Upgrade: Ballina Bypass, Ballina, NSW North Coast

-  Hume Highway Upgrade: Tarcutta Bypass, Tarcutta, NSW Southern Tablelands

-  Northern Hume Highway Duplication, NSW Southern Tablelands

-  Liverpool-Ashfield Pipeline, Western Sydney