Technological advances have reached the fusion idea of virtual road safety audits that use a driving simulator for road safety audits. To improve this concept, researchers have proposed frameworks for virtual road safety audits at the initial stage. Until recently, VRSA experiments have been performed by experts’ decisions without taking into account the testability and feasibility of experimental variables. Therefore, this study attempts to propose and apply an approach to prioritize the relative importance of experimental variables for virtual road safety audits using a driving simulator. As a method, experts completed the survey for the analytic hierarchy process method, a multiple criteria decision-making process. Results showed that the “work zone and crash handling” and “sign and marking” alternative has a slight advantage over the other variables. The “pavement and drainage” variable is the least for evaluation using VRSA. Overall, the findings of this study can provide a primitive decision-making model and useful insights to design an experiment for virtual road safety audits.

技术进步已经达到了虚拟道路安全审计的融合理念，即使用驾驶模拟器进行道路安全审计。为了改进这一概念，研究人员在初始阶段提出了虚拟道路安全审计的框架。直到最近，VRSA 实验都是由专家决定进行的，没有考虑实验变量的可测试性和可行性。因此，本研究试图提出并应用一种方法来优先考虑使用驾驶模拟器进行虚拟道路安全审计的实验变量的相对重要性。作为一种方法，专家完成了层次分析法的调查，这是一种多准则决策过程。结果表明，与其他变量相比，“工作区和碰撞处理”和“标志和标记”替代方案具有轻微优势。“路面和排水”变量是使用 VRSA 进行评估的最少变量。总体而言，本研究的结果可以为设计虚拟道路安全审计实验提供原始决策模型和有用的见解。