A global look at road safety

ESRA (E-Survey of Road users’ Attitudes) is a joint initiative of road safety institutes, research centres, public services, and private sponsors from all over the world. The aim is to collect and analyse comparable data on road safety performance, in particular road safety culture and behaviour of road users. The ESRA data are used as a basis for a large set of road safety indicators. These provide scientific evidence for policy making at national and international levels.
Two editions of the ESRA survey have been launched already. Those editions were ESRA1 (2015-2018) and ESRA2 (2018-2021). The fieldwork of the second edition (ESRA2), was conducted in two waves in 2018 and 2019/20. In total, 39 partners from 48 countries participated in the ESRA2 survey.
The initial aim of ESRA was to develop a system for gathering reliable and comparable information about people’s attitudes towards road safety in several European countries. This objective has been achieved and the initial expectations have even been exceeded. ESRA has become a global initiative which already conducted surveys in 60 countries across six continents. The outputs of the ESRA project have become building blocks of national and international road safety monitoring systems.