This report investigates EU policy on road safety targets and the strategies used to achieve these targets. The outcome will be used to provide the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) with ideas to adopt these strategies in the United States. The FHWA and AASHTO desired a paper "that summarizes how the European Commission and its related transportation organizations have supported the setting of ambitious crash-reduction targets among its diverse 27 European members". The present paper goes slightly beyond this. Because the road safety targets are set for the EU as a whole and are not binding for the individual Member States, this paper also examines which other policy instruments the EU uses to help Member States to implement the road safety policy.
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