This paper focuses on the so called soft measures for road safety that can be recommended particularly for countries with not so advanced road infrastructure. It makes a review of the principal of these measures that have been found to influence road safety in European countries with lesser developed road infrastructures. The selection of the factors and the analysis that follows, is based on accident statistics and their interpretation for the last 5 to 10 years in thirteen European countries (among which Czech republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Malta, etc). The presentation of the basic statistics and findings is accompanied by comments and reference to the relevant policy issues. Special attention is given to drawing more general conclusions and recommendations that can be taken by road safety related administrations in non-European countries as a guide to developing immediate actions and road safety programmes in a third country. Particular emphasis is given to the development of long term Strategic Plans for the increase in road safety and it is stressed that good coordination among the various government departments that are involved in road safety work, is fundamental. The paper in its final part draws some conclusions and recommendations on road safety programmes always those that are less capital incentive and maximize output in terms of impact per unit of investment. (A) For the covering abstract ofthe conference see E216632.
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