Road accidents result in a large social and economic loss for society. In the last 25 years programmes have been developed in many countries in order to raise road safety standards. As a result some Member States of the European Union have managed to reduce the number of roadrelated deaths to half the number reported in Austria. Therefore, the Austrian government decided to carry out a comprehensive road safety programme starting in January 2002. The goal of this programme is to halve the current traffic deaths by 2010. This brochure presents the basis for the Austrian Road Safety Programme and its comprehensive list of measures, some of which have immediately been carried out as part of a framework of initial measures known as the „start package“. This programme creates a structured approach for road safety work and presents an overview of possible steps to reduce these accidents. The basis of this work comes from the scientific and interdisciplinary work of the Austrian Road Safety Board (KfV).
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