Road Safety Audits (RSA): AI-Assisted vs. Statutory — What's the Difference?
How AI-assisted continuous road survey complements statutory IRC:SP:88 Road Safety Audits, not replaces them.
A statutory Road Safety Audit under IRC:SP:88-2019 requires a qualified, independent audit team and follows a defined multi-stage process. AI-assisted continuous survey is a different, complementary tool — it doesn’t replace a statutory RSA, but it can run far more often, catching deterioration between formal audit cycles and feeding evidence into the eventual statutory process.
Typical AI-assisted RSA coverage includes assessment against recognized compliance groups: pavement condition, road markings, road signage, safety barriers, pedestrian facilities, work-zone safety, and (where historical crash data is available) black-spot correlation. Findings are typically graded by severity — critical, high, medium, low — with critical findings flagged for rectification within a defined window.
InfraIQ RoadSense supports this workflow with continuous, evidence-backed surveys authorities can use between statutory audit cycles.
