Road network safety management is a challenging process for Road Administrations (RAs) in Italy. It requires planning their activities, identifying operational actions, and implementing maintenance activities. For an effective road management system, all these activities should be based on a replicable monitoring procedure which relies on technical criteria to identify critical sites requiring attention. To develop and implement a reliable and effective maintenance strategy, Road Administrations need inexpensive and user-friendly procedures that can be applied to the entire road network. Road signs and road markings plays an important role in providing visual guidance for road users, which in turn influences road safety. This paper proposes and discusses a standardized and systematic monitoring procedure for the condition assessment of road signs and markings. The procedure will be applied to identify damaged, old, or unreadable signs and markings and a section of a two-way two-lane rural road has been used to test and calibrate the proposed procedure.

道路网络安全管理对于意大利的道路管理部门 (RA) 来说是一个具有挑战性的过程。它需要规划他们的活动，确定操作行动，并实施维护活动。对于一个有效的道路管理系统，所有这些活动都应该基于一个可复制的监测程序，该程序依赖于技术标准来识别需要关注的关键地点。为了制定和实施可靠且有效的维护策略，道路管理部门需要可应用于整个道路网络的廉价且用户友好的程序。道路标志和道路标记在为道路使用者提供视觉引导方面发挥着重要作用，进而影响道路安全。本文提出并讨论了用于道路标志和标记状况评估的标准化和系统化监测程序。该程序将用于识别损坏、陈旧或不可读的标志和标记，并且已使用一条双向两车道农村公路的一部分来测试和校准提议的程序。