EVALUASI KINERJA KESELAMATAN JALAN PALBAPANG – SAMAS KABUPATEN BANTUL DAERAH ISTIMEWA YOGYAKARTA
Abstract
Road safety audit is systematic process for traffic accident prevention with
improvement of geometric conditions, road equipment and road infrastructure
that has potential to cause accidents. This is important, considering the traffic
accidents are fairly high cause of death in Indonesia. Palbapang - Samas road
along 12,65 km is an collector road that has a high density level of traffic. There
have been 83 accidents in this road (2017). This study aims to identify potential
accidents and provide the recommendation to improve the road safety in the
Palbapang - Samas road. This research begins with literature study, then
collected the secondary data ( traffic accidents data) and primary data (Road
Safety Audit checklist) which were used as audit and analysis. The results of road
safety audit shows that some of road conditions, road equipments and road
infrastructure require an improvement. The unavilability of speed warning signs,
road marking that is not clearly, limited street lighting, lanes for bycycles or other
motorized vehicles which is not available are considered as indicators of the
cause of accidents. From this results, the recommendation that can be given to
improve the safety of road users is to install warning signs the limit of speed and
gudance signs, to install street lighting at locations that is not available and
repaint markers that is not visible.