The Scientific Expert Group IR7 on Performance Indicators for the Road Sector was formed on July 12-13, 1995, in Paris, under the auspices of OECD/RTR 1995-97. The task was to propose performance indicators for gauging the current state of governmental road policies, the effectiveness of road management and service to users in the road transport field. This paper is intended as preliminary working material to be used as a basis for discussion at the OECD task group meeting in Paris on March 7-8, 1996. The paper embraces traffic safety and environmental issues. It also presents material on how the Swedish state could use performance indicators firstly in its control and follow-up of the SNRA, but even in its measurement of the condition of the entire national road transport system. Moreover, this paper attempts to place performance indicators in the context of possible instruments for state control of public administrations management.
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