Every year, more than 1 million injury accidents (including 50,000 fatalities and 1.7 million people injured) occur on public roads throughout the European Union. Hence, improving road safety was given top priority in the European Union’s Transport Policy. To reach the overall objective of halving the number of fatalities by 2010, it is essential to know the reduction potentials of the wide variety of already-existing road safety measures. A prerequisite for this task is reliable knowledge about the effectiveness and efficiency of the road safety measures considered. Previous ROSEBUD work packages answered the question how efficiency assessment tools are currently used in different countries (WP1), what factors prevent the use of those tools (WP2) and what can be done to overcome existing barriers and shortcomings (WP3). The main task of work package 4 (WP4) is to test the developed efficiency assessment tools on selected road safety measures. The WP4 program was as follows: • to carry out a certain number of Efficiency Assessment Studies • to report experiences gained from those studies • and to evaluate, through these practical examples, the results of previous work packages (in treating barriers and the use of standardised procedures, respectively) (Author/publisher) For the official ROSEBUD website see http://partnet.vtt.fi/rosebud/
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