This report was prepared by the OECD/ECMT Working Group on Achieving Ambitious Road Safety Targets. At its first meeting held on 9-10 March 2005, the Working Group discussed the importance of cross-country comparisons and targeted performance assessment in identifying the priority areas for implementation of effective measures and areas for possible improvements. It was decided to present and publish an overview of the safety evolution of individual countries, based on information collected through a survey. The survey was sent to all 50 OECD/ECMT countries to collect information on road safety trends, recent road safety measures implemented; key road safety issues, measures planned to address these issues and targets set and current results towards these targets. The responses to the survey are completed by other relevant data from other sources (e.g. IRTAD, ECMT statistics, and recent reports of the JTRC). It should be noted that the survey focused on specific sectoral elements; it did not however address governance issues and high level policy issues, which will be analysed in the main report of the Working Group. Responses were received from 38 out of the 50 OECD/ECMT countries. In addition, the states of Victoria and Western Australia also provided responses to the Questionnaire. This report contains includes first a summary of road safety performance in OECD/ECMT countries. It presents an overview of road safety targets in OECD/ECMT countries, highlights the main road safety problems identified by member countries and provides some country comparisons. The detailed responses from the 40 jurisdictions are set out later in this report. (Author/publisher) For the summary report see: http://www.cemt.org/JTRC/WorkingGroups/RoadSafety/Performance/TS3-summa…
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