This study concerns the initial stage of the DUMAS project: `Developing Urban Management and Safety', a project of the research programme of the Directorate General for Transport of the European Union. The objective of DUMAS is to produce a framework for the design and evaluation of urban safety initiatives. The report offers an overview and an analysis of the national state-of-the-art reports of each of the nine countries involved in the project: Austria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. It focuses on `local' traffic safety related problems. `Nation-wide' problems like age and gender related problems, drinking and driving, et cetera, are firstly to be dealt with at the national level. (A)
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