This report shows the seven ITS-measures found to have the greatest influence in reducing the number of fatalities in road crashes. The target audience are government and local road authorities and road operators, private and public road authorities and the police. The purpose of the report is to help road authorities to develop an ITS plan for their roads and to be able to understand the opportunities for improved road safety using vehicle based ITS. The goal is that road authorities can use the report to get inspiration for implementing ITS on roads and to understand the effects on road safety. furthermore the report can be used to gain a better understanding of vehicle based ITS and the effect on road safety. The report highlights the latest information on ITS, and the 'state of the art' practices. Concepts of intelligent technology systems both on roads and in vehicles have been identified and information on the effects of ITS on road safety has been gathered from litterature. Road administrations can use this report in order to develop ideas and implement ITS solutions on infrastructures and in-vehicle and understand outcomes on road safety. The report also describes examples of systems and presents: • market places penetration of systems at present time and by 2020; • real achievements (or expected) in road safety of systems and types of accident studied; • assessment of some systems’ cost/benefit ratio. (Author/publisher)
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