Road Safety Engineering & Design Support
We promote safer roads through audits, inspections, and design integration.
SafeRoutes4x provides comprehensive road safety engineering services that identify risks, strengthen infrastructure performance, and ensure that roads are designed and operated to protect all users. Our work applies the Safe System Approach and international best practices to reduce crash likelihood and severity across the entire project lifecycle.
Infrastructure shapes human behavior and defines the level of risk on every road.
Our programs & initiatives
We conduct comprehensive road safety audits—technical, evidence-based evaluations of road segments and intersections that assess risks and recommend improvements. These audits are shared with road authorities, construction firms, and local governments.
By 2027, we aim to submit at least 10 detailed audits, targeting high-risk zones across Rwanda.
Audits assess:
- Visibility and signage
- Intersection safety
- Pedestrian accessibility
- Roadside hazards
- Compliance with national and international safety standards
We are proud to be an iRAP-accredited Star Rating organization. Through this global methodology, we assess the infrastructure safety level of roads, using a standardized 1–5 star system.
- 5-star roads are the safest; 1-star roads are the most dangerous
- We provide objective, data-backed assessments that influence design, budget allocation, and policy
These ratings help prioritize high-risk roads for improvement, guide investment, and align Rwanda’s infrastructure with global safety benchmarks.
As Rwanda’s urban areas grow, new developments bring new risks. A TIA ensures that commercial or residential growth doesn’t compromise road safety.
We conduct technical TIAs for proposed developments, assessing:
- Traffic volume growth and peak-hour congestion
- Vehicle, pedestrian, and cyclist flow patterns
- Design flaws and dangerous junctions
- Risk to vulnerable road users
- Access to public transportation and emergency services
We provide actionable recommendations, such as:
- Traffic calming design
- Improved road geometry
- New pedestrian crossings
- Turning lane adjustments and signal timing
We ground all our infrastructure interventions in scientific evidence and best practices.
We contribute in urban infrastructure design and planning phases to design infrastructures that prioritise the safety for road users.