This Report examines the road safety performance of several nations, reviews reported policies and strategies in jurisdictions and attempts to establish linkages between adopted and implemented road safety policies, overarching multi - year strategies and performance outcomes. This has proven challenging as the level of understanding available through review of survey returns is, by its nature, limited. Road safety performance is the outcome of complex interactions of many factors in each society. The findings are built upon survey returns from 16 countries and 8 selected state/provincial jurisdictions which set out the road safety visions, strategies, policies and practices they have adopted to underpin their road safety performance. 15 countries and 5 states/provinces returned the policies survey - and 11 countries and 4 states/provinces returned the strategy survey. The surveys sought information which included: road safety vision, ambition and approach, road safety management arrangements, population and driver data, policies adopted to address drink driving, drug driving, speeding, and improve seat belt and helmet use (motorcyclists and cyclists), penalties to deter non-compliance with these policies, improvement of the inherent safety on a section of road through policies for infrastructure safety programs and speed limit setting guidelines, policies to achieve improved standards of vehicle safety, policies linking injury insurance premiums and crash risk by vehicle or user, and any adoption of Intermediate safety performance indicators. In addition, material from the Country Reports on Road Safety Performance, 2005-2008. OECD/ITF Joint Transport Research Centre, OECD, Paris 2008; the 2009 IRTAD Annual Report, the OECD/ITF Towards Zero Report (2008); the GRSP Speed Manual (2008); the World Bank Country Guidelines for the conduct of Road Safety Management Capacity Reviews (2009) and many national or state/ territory road safety strategies, websites and documents was augmented by the experience of editorial committee members (including knowledge of a number of recent Road Safety Management Capacity Reviews in international jurisdictions commissioned by governments) and the professional experiences of contributors in order to obtain further information and provide a stronger context for the report. (Author/publisher) This report is available from the internet site of the World Road Association (PIARC): http://www.piarc.org
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