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This paper will outline ETSC's contribution to the European Union's road safety policy 2011-2020. It will present some of the main recommendations from ETSC's Blueprint for the 4th Road Safety Action Programme and will introduce the response to the European Commission's Road Safety Policy Orientations 2011-2020 (published July 2010). The second framework document presented is the Transport White Paper (published March 2011). The paper will focus on new targets and the new vision set for Europe's Road Safety policy picking out some issues in particular such as traffic law enforcement and the protection of vulnerable road users. It will argue that by reinforcing the current Road Safety Policy Orientations, the EU will be better placed to reach its new ambitious goal of halving road deaths by 2020 and the longer term zero casualty vision.
The Decision Support System (DSS) is one of the key objectives of the European co-funded research project SafetyCube in order to better support evidence-based policy making. Results will be assembled in the form of a DSS that will present for each suggested road safety measure: details of risk factor tackled, measure, best estimate of casualty reduction effectiveness, cost-benefit evaluation and analytic background. The development of the DSS presents a great potential to further support decision making at local, regional, national and international level, aiming to fill in the current gap of comparable measures effectiveness evaluation. In order to provide policy-makers and industry with comprehensive and well-structured information about measures, it is essential that a systems approach is used to ensure the links between risk factors and all relevant safety measures are made fully visible. The DSS is intended to become a major source of information for industry, policy-makers and the wider road safety community.
The need for improved EU level accident information and data was identified in the EU White Paper on Transport Policy (2001)1 and detailed in the Road Safety Action Plan (2003)2. The plan specifies that the EC will develop a road safety observatory to coordinate data collection within an integrated framework.
At IAM RoadSmart we share the excitement about autonomous cars " who wouldn't! However over half of the drivers we polled supported concentrating on making drivers safer " among IAM RoadSmart members it was 70%. Driverless cars are still years away but delivering safer drivers can help reduce death and injury from tomorrow. Governments, academics and car makers need to work hard to convince sceptical British and American drivers that autonomous cars can deliver the benefits promised such as a 90% plus reduction in road deaths.
Before 2002, France was in the queue of Europeans countries in terms of road safety results because of the low density of population and the faulty behaviour of French due itself to a very low level of traffic law enforcement Even if there were signs of the change of mind in France towards road safety before, the turning point was in summer 2002, when the President declared road safety as a priority work during his mandate. The more symbolic measure was the decision to settle an automatic speed control system (700 fixed and 300 mobile). Over three years, the average speed on French roads decreased by 5 km/h and the number of fatalities on road turned down from an average of 8000 deaths per year to 5 300, which represents a decrease of more than 34 %. For the next months, we anticipate that, as many drivers have kept loosing points on their driving licence through light speed violations, this will lead drivers to check their speed and the speed limits more systematically as loosing points on one's driving license has longer time effects than paying a fine. Consequently, we expect a decrease of 10 % to 15% of fatalities in 2006, which is a very good result if we compare with the trend of the last twenty five years (about 2,3 %). The reverse effect of this system that lies on the changes of behaviour of the majority is that, there is more and more discontent against the system taking into account that automatic speed control system allows only a minor tolerance above limits and that local speed limits are not always adapted to local infrastructure and traffic conditions. Another weakness of the system is that motorcyclists are too rarely caught by the system; the system is being gradually improved by placing the new speed cameras in position of taking photographs of the back of the vehicle. But this would not be sufficient to reduce the speed of motorcyclists that are a very high risk group (16% of fatalities for 0,8 % of traffic) For alcohol, there is no easy route for progress: all what is done nowadays is toward festive impaired driving (through designating sober drivers or mass alcohol preventive screenings) although there is not enough done towards chronic alcoholic driving.
Der Allgemeine Deutsche Automobilclub e. V. (ADAC) und die Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen (BASt) veranstalteten am 7. und 8. Oktober 2003 in Wiesbaden ihr 5. Symposium "Sicher fahren in Europa". Nach 1991, 1994, 1997 und 2000 trafen sich erneut über 200 Fachleute aus Wissenschaft, Politik, Verwaltung, Industrie, Wirtschaft und Verbänden aus ganz Europa und einigen außereuropäischen Ländern, trugen neue Forschungsergebnisse vor und erörterten aktuelle Ansätze zur Erhöhung der Sicherheit im Straßenverkehr. Dabei ging es in Vortrags- und Diskussionsbeiträgen vor allem darum, folgende verkehrspolitischen Herausforderungen und Entwicklungen für eine europaweite Verkehrssicherheitsarbeit zu beleuchten: - die Umsetzung des 3. Verkehrssicherheits-Aktionsprogrammes der EU-Kommission bis 2010, dessen Diskussion gerade begonnen hat, - die zusätzlichen Probleme und Herausforderungen für die Verkehrssicherheit, die ab 2004 durch den EU-Beitritt von 10 weiteren Mitgliedsländern entstehen, - das Bestreben vieler EU-Mitgliedsstaaten, ihre nationale Identität und ihre regionalen Besonderheiten auch auf dem Gebiet der Verkehrssicherheit zu bewahren, um die Akzeptanz und Effizienz von praktischen Maßnahmen zu sichern, ein Ziel, dem sich auch der "EU-Konvent zur Zukunft Europas" verschrieben hat. Diesen ebenso aktuellen wie grundsätzlichen Anforderungen entsprach das Veranstaltungsprogramm mit seinen verkehrspolitischen Eröffnungs-vorträgen und mit drei Fachsitzungen - zur Verbesserung der Fahrzeugsicherheit, - der Verbesserung der Straßensicherheit und - zur Verbesserung des Verhaltens von Verkehrsteilnehmern. Eine Podiumsdiskussion "Zur Harmonisierung von Verkehrsüberwachung und Sanktionen" schloss die Veranstaltung ab.