Abstract: Each year due to the vehicles’ uncontrolled exit from the roadway and hitting roadside obstacles -especially rollover on embankments - huge costs are imposed to the communities. For the reduction of such costs, different safety improvement programs may be implemented; for example guard installations, embankment’ slope reduction and/or the roadside clear zones’ enhancement. But the real problem always is the scarcity of available resources and how to allocate such scarce resources among proposed alternatives and programs. In this research-work by developing a specific approach, the optimized technique for the allocation of financial resources for safety improvement of roadside embankments is presented. Additionally, by developing special graphs, such facility is provided for planners and designers in different sections of road construction and maintenance to make optimum decisions either to install protective guards or flattening of roadside slopes. The results also might be beneficial for the correction and/or completion of the present related code of standards.

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