As part of the project "Kazakhstan: Strategic Risk Assessment across the Strategic Road Network", training on implementing the iRAP international safety assessment system in Kazakhstan was held in Almaty and Astana from 22 to 26 May with experts Luke Rogers (Australia) and Jigesh Bhavsar (India). The training was attended by specialists from various road safety organisations: the Committee for Roads of the Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure Development, KazAvtoZhol National Company JSC, the National Center for Road Asset Quality (RSE) and the L. Goncharov Kazakh Automobile and Road Institute.
The training programme comprised five modules on the international road assessment methodology: road inspections with a site visit to the Otar-Uzynagash section, road attribute coding, assigning Star Ratings to roads and analysis of the results.
