Road safety in Austria annual report 2013 : road safety work - implementation of the Road Safety Programme.

Author(s)
Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology BMVIT & Austrian Road Safety Fund
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Abstract

Road safety in Austria is the joint responsibility of various different policy and decision makers (local authorities, political stakeholders, research institutes, non-governmental organisations). The chart below provides an overview of the different participants and how they work together. The Road Safety Programme (RSP) forms the core of the country’s road safety work. The first RSP was enacted in 2002 for the period from 2002 to 2010. The current RSP 2011-2020 was published in February 2011. As a result of the Accident Investigation Act (Unfalluntersuchungsgesetz) which came into force in 2006, bmvit established a Road Safety Advisory Council as the forum for decision-makers in matters relating to road safety. The Road Safety Advisory Council focuses, in particular, on the preparation, ongoing evaluation and development of road safety programmes for all modes of transport. Its members are made up of the transport spokespersons for the parliamentary political parties, safety experts for all modes of transport and representatives of government ministries, local and regional authorities, automobile clubs, chambers of commerce and industry, trade and labour associations, interest groups and research institutions. The Advisory Council’s “Roads Task Force” was actively involved in the preparation of the RSP 2011-2020, will support the programme throughout its duration and will evaluate it at regular intervals. This annual report provides an overview of the implementation status of the RSP and thus serves as an ongoing programme evaluation tool. The Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT) has published an annual report on “Road Safety in Austria” since 2007. this report affords an annual look at road safety work in Austria and provides information on current trends in accident statistics. the 2013 annual report again focuses on the Road Safety Programme 2011-2020, reports on the implementation of measures in its individual areas of intervention and outlines the resulting successes in the reduction of accidents, injuries and fatalities on Austria’s roads. the report thus provides support to researchers, practitioners and decision-makers in developing, planning and implementing further road safety measures. this, in turn, establishes the basis for achieving the ambitious goals set in the Road Safety Programme for the period to 2020 and allows any necessary adaptations to the programme to be made in a timely manner. all analyses should factor in the changes to accident data collection procedures that came into effect from 2012. Since 1 January 2012, personal injury accidents on Austria’s roads are recorded electronically by the police officers who respond to a road traffic accident via an “accident data Management” (ADM) system and transmitted directly to Statistics Austria. While the actual accidents are recorded on the spot, i.e. as soon as possible after they occur, the full details of an incident can be entered into the system in stages. a key change is that all accidents are now assigned spatial coordinates using a geographic information system (GIS), a development which could in future significantly aid the identification of high accident concentration sections of the road network. the accident data collection catalogue has been updated in line with road safety and accident research requirements and considerably extended in comparison to the data previously collected via the accident statistics report. (Author/publisher)

Publication

Library number
C 51766 [electronic version only] /81 /83 /
Source

Vienna, Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology BMVIT, 2014, 20 p.

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