Building the European Road Safety Observatory. SafetyNet. Deliverable 3.7b Road safety performance indicators : country profiles
Year: 2006
Type: article
Abstract: The EC 6th Framework Integrated Project SafetyNet aims to accelerate the availability\nand use of harmonised road safety data in Europe. Having such data available\nthroughout Europe would be tremendously beneficial for road safety, since it would\nenable the evaluation of road safety measures, the comparison of road safety status\nwithin and between countries, and the accelerated sharing of best practice in road\nsafety policy.\nOne of the macroscopic road safety related areas that SafetyNet focuses on concerns\nsafety performance indicators (SPI). Such variables indicate road safety by looking at\nthe operational state of the road traffic system. The indicator areas looked at by\nSafetyNet are: alcohol and drug use, speeding, protective systems, daytime running\nlights, vehicles (passive safety), roads, and trauma management. In an iterative\nmanner, the SafetyNet SPI team has developed theoretically sound, yet practically\nfeasible indicators, and has obtained the relevant data - or information about their\navailability - from the 27 cooperating countries (25 member states, Norway and\nSwitzerland) ]. Hakkert, Gitelman and Vis (2007) present the theoretical framework\nand the developed safety performance indicators. The current report presents, for each\ncountry studied, the relevant available data. In a third report, the theory is applied to\nthis data to obtain the indicator values and the different countries are compared to the\nextent possible.
Authors: Martijn Vis, Alex Van Gent, François Riguelle, Vojtech Eksler, Péter Holló, Peter Morsink, Victoria Gitelman, Terje Assum, Lucy Rackliff
Language: English
Topic: Traffic and Road Safety
Subfield: Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: European Commission
OpenAlex ID: W2344800786