Cardno offers clients a full range of road safety audits, including audits for feasibility studies, preliminary and detailed design and pre-opening stages of project development, as well as for existing roads.

Road safety audits are conducted by Cardno employees who have extensive experience and expertise in the areas of highway and road safety engineering, crash investigation and prevention, traffic engineering and road design. Our auditors also have an understanding of road user behaviour and human perception. Audits are led by qualified road safety auditors who are experienced with guidelines for each State Road Authority.

Achieving Safer Roads

Road safety audits are conducted to ensure the highest practicable level of safety for each new road project and also for existing roads.

Road safety audits consider all road users including pedestrians, bicyclists, young and old people, as well as cars, trucks and motorcyclists.

The outcome of a road safety audit is a report which identifies any safety deficiencies and makes recommendations aimed at overcoming such problems. The process of conducting road safety audits undoubtedly plays a vital part in achieving safer roads.

Cardno is pleased to participate in such projects which aim to reduce accident levels on Australian roads.

Projects

Cardno has undertaken safety audits of existing roads for the New South Wales Roads and Traffic Authority, Queensland Department of Main Roads, and many local councils.

Projects for the New South Wales Roads amd Traffic Authority have included the F3 Freeway between Hornsby and Brooklyn, Great Western Highway between Woodford and Mt Victoria, Northern Road between Mulgoa and Bligh Park, Pittwater Road between North Sydney and Narrabeen, and several other major urban arterial roads. Projects for the Queensland Department of Main Roads include 18 sections of road totalling over 200 kilometres in the Wide Bay District of Queensland.

Three urban arterial roads have been audited for Ku-ring-gai Council. Three audits have also been conducted for Interlink Roads on the M5 Freeway. Audits of rural roads and intersections have been undertaken for Kolan and Isis Shire Councils.

Design audits are conducted in-house and externally for other organisations. Projects ininclude the M5 East Motorway, the Mid-Western Highway at Dicks, and McLeans Creek in New South Wales, as well as the Eumundi Bypass Project in Queensland.

For more information, please contact Cardno.