Assessment of Road Safety Index For Road Maintenance “A Case for Butajira To Sodo Road”

Abstract

Now a day, the road network in Ethiopia provides the dominant mode of freight and passenger transport and thus plays a vital role in the economy of the country. Accordingly, the Ethiopian government allocated sufficient budget to maintenance-heavy economical roads. One of the heavy maintenance road projects that carried out by ERA with this fiscal year is ButajiraWereba-Hossana-Areka-Sodo (BWHAS) B51, road-heavy maintenance Projects. The objectives were addressed by detail review of literature about the subject matter and also by collecting relevant data which used for Butajira-Wereba-Hossana-Areka-Sodo (BWHAS) 195km which required an appropriate choice of maintenance methods to preserve this investment becomes increasingly important. Therefore, this project study attempts to assess, evaluate, and present the performance measure of road safety index for heavy road maintenance of BWHAS, especially in problematic routs. In order to measure the performance capacity of the existing roads, the study of the project applies the five basic road safety index characteristics.