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Item SAFETY AUDITING ON URBAN ROADS WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS TO INTERSECTIONS IN A CASE STUDY IN KANO, NIGERIA(2014-06-09) HABIBU, Abubakar Sani; AYDIN, CumhurThe current international reviews and action plan strategies regarding rapid increase in road traffic volumes and present status of huge number of traffic accidents have made road safety audits/inspection procedures necessary major policy for implementation in any country worldwide. Road traffic accidents affect social and economic aspects of any country which need serious and urgent action to be taken in order to provide effective improvements, solutions, suitable and desired counter measures so as to avert the present situations. In this aspect, urban road safety audits have been analyzed in the study. A case study of an urban Katsina Road section in Kano, Nigeria was selected and evaluated using actual practices, strategies, and procedures of road safety audits in developed countries in relation to deficiencies, hazards and intersection capacity and level of service measures. Based on the evaluated case study conditions through proposed methodology, different number of safety defects were detected and related counter measures were proposed for the present case study accident potentials, capacity and level of service for accident severity reduction and elimination.