Expenditure for road safety : an estimate for 2007. Improving road safety means that money needs to be spent on the prevention of road crashes and injuries. This expenditure gives an indication of how many efforts are spent on improving road safety and how these efforts relate to the extent of road safety as a social problem. In addition, information about expenditure on road safety is required for cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analyses and for comparison with the expenditure in other policy areas. Until the present day, however, no complete and current picture of this expenditure, nor an accepted method for its estimation, has been available. The present study investigated how much money is annually spent on road safety, by which parties, and which means or methods of prevention the money is spent on. This report describes both the estimation method used and an estimate for the year 2007. This estimate is partly based on new data and partly on estimates of certain expenditures in earlier studies.
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