Exam Format and Content

Road Safety Professional Level 1

 

 

Domain 1: Foundations of Road Safety (21%)

Task 1: Define road safety (i.e., Highway Safety Manual, Road Safety Fundamentals).

Task 2: Describe evidence-based road safety, including the distinction of nominal versus substantive safety, by using road safety literature.

Task 3: Describe the complexity of road safety (e.g., crash contributing factors and their interaction effects, crash frequency and severity).

Task 4: List road safety-relevant characteristics of different types of road users.

Task 5: Identify multidisciplinary partners across organizations to collaborate in decisions and actions to improve road safety.

Task 6: Describe different approaches to road safety management (e.g., traditional 4Es, Haddon’s matrix, Safe System Approach, Vision Zero).

 

Domain 2: Measuring Safety (20%)

Task 1: Identify types, applications, and users of safety data, and discuss ways to mitigate the challenges and limitations of the data.

Task 2: Discuss how the quality of safety data can lead to more effective programs, projects, initiatives, and investments.

Task 3: Explain the primary components of quantitative safety analysis.

 

Domain 3: Human Factors and Road Safety (20%)

Task 1: Describe key characteristics, abilities, and limitations of human factors that influence how road users interact with the roadway environment.

Task 2: Describe multidisciplinary safety strategies to modify human behavior.

Task 3: Discuss the benefits and limitations of enforcement and educational/outreach strategies for modifying human behavior. 

Task 4: Describe how roadway infrastructure features and elements (e.g., traffic control devices,road alignment, cross-section) affect human behavior.

Task 5: Describe how human factors influence planning, design, and operations to increase the safety of all road users.

Task 6: Describe how applying positive guidance principles reduces road user cognitive workload.

 

Domain 4: Solving Road Safety Problems (24%)

Task 1: Describe the road safety management process and the use of data-driven procedures and methods. 

Task 2: Describe network screening approaches and methods.

Task 3: Select the appropriate methods, approaches, and tools to diagnose safety problems by using safety data to identify contributing factors and patterns of crashes.

Task 4: Recognize appropriate sources for multidisciplinary countermeasures and select potential countermeasures.

Task 5: Perform benefit-cost analysis to select effective road safety programs and countermeasures for implementation. 

Task 6: Create an evaluation plan using data to determine the impact of proposed countermeasures.

 

Domain 5: Implementing Road Safety Plans and Programs (15%)

Task 1: Describe how road safety plans are prepared and used.

Task 2: List important elements of road safety policies and programs.

Task 3: Explain the roles, elements, and value of multidisciplinary teams for implementing and monitoring road safety policies, programs, and outreach strategies.

Task 4: Describe approaches to evaluate road safety programs and explain how evaluation findings influence changes in future program delivery.

 

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