Since one of the main tasks of road administration is to carry out activities improving the functioning of road infrastructure in order to improve traffic safety, traffic managers are interested in managing road infrastructure safety.

Road infrastructure safety management (RISM) is the use of planning, design, construction and operation of road infrastructure procedures, the systematic identification of hazards on the road, estimating their possible consequences for road users and the application of action to eliminate identified hazards or to reduce the effects of their occurrence measured by the number of accidents, number of victims and injured in accidents and fatalities the cost of road accidents.