The Road Safety Audit is part of the overall road safety work. Its aim is to make road infrastructure as safe as possible, already while planning and designing road traffic facilities. This should avoid unsafe traffic systems and thus increase traffic safety. When carrying out a safety audit, a trained, certified and independent auditor checks the planning for safety deficiencies and compliance with current guidelines.

The Chair of Transportation System Planning at Bauhaus Universität is one of the few official training centers for safety auditors. Since 2002, yet more than 200 auditors from all over Germany as well as Austria and Luxembourg have been trained and certified. During the training content on safety-related aspects of highways, rural roads and cross-town links are imparted by expert lectures, as well as applied to practical examples, homework and site visits.

On November 14th, all 13 participants of this year's training successfully completed the course. The ceremonial handover of the certificates took place on November 15th in the courtyard of the auditorium building. Mr. Dipl.-Päd. Joachim Bendl, Managing Director of the Bauhaus Continuing Education Academy, presented the participants with their personal certificate, with which they can now officially work as road safety auditors. In terms of content and organization, the course was supervised by the Bauhaus Continuing Education Academy as well as the staff of the Chair of Transportation System Planning, Mr. Wido Hamel and Mr. Johannes Vogel.