One objective in ROSEBUD is to gather relevant experiences with road safety efficiency assessment. An inventory of current practice with respect to cost-benefit analysis (CBA) and cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) of road safety measures in the EU-countries, Norway, Switzerland and selected further countries is the main outcome of this gathering. A first version of this inventory was compiled in WP1 (see chapter 3). During the lifetime of ROSEBUD the collection of road safety assessments will go on. In WP 5 the inventory will be finished and published as a self-standing handbook. This handbook is dedicated to political decision makers and the general public and not to scientists only. The handbook tries to be easy to understand and should support all efforts to increase road safety. All assessments considered had been carried out by renown researchers and institutions. To identify officially applied road safety related assessment tools a questionnaire had been sent to 32 ministries responsible for road safety in their countries. Practical requirements with road safety related assessment tools are described in chapter 4 of this paper. The results of work package 1 (WP1) will serve as a basis for further work in the ROSEBUD project. The vision of a framework for the assessment of road safety measures (see chapter 5) will be an input for further discussion and activities in the following WP's. (Author/publisher) For the official ROSEBUD website see http://partnet.vtt.fi/rosebud/
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