This report is part of the ‘Policy’ Work Package of the DaCoTA project (www.dacota-project.eu). The ‘Policy’ Work Package is designed to fill in a gap in knowledge on road safety policy making processes, their institutional framework and the data, methods and technical tools needed to base policy formulation and adoption on scientifically-established evidence. Building on previous work conducted by the Policy Work Package, this report aims to identify which data and tools Policy Makers regard as a priority and how available they think these are to themselves. The identification of Policy Makers among the respondents of the Stakeholder Survey was achieved in 2 stages. The first was by selecting all respondents who stated that ‘Policy Making’ was one of their main road safety related activities (n=108). The second was to select respondents who stated that s/he worked for an organisation type that was considered to be strongly associated with Policy Making, but had not stated policy making as one of their main road safety related activities (n=43). These organisation types were: EU parliament, European Commission, National Government, Local/regional Government, Ministry and Road Administration. One respondent was excluded as s/he stated that s/he worked outside of Europe (USA), leaving a total of 150 respondents who can be considered to be Policy Makers. These respondents will be referred to as the Policy Maker Group. There is an over representation of Policy Makers working in Belgium and the UK. This may be influenced by the number of European organisations that are based in Belgium and the original survey only being in English. Just over half of the Policy Makers (55%) work for organisations that are traditionally associated with policy making (EU parliament, European Commission, National Government, Local/regional Government, Ministry and Road Administration). It is likely that many of the remainder work with and advise policy making organisations. The majority of Policy Makers had worked in Road Safety for many years. 57% (71) had worked 11 years or more in Road Safety with only 18% (27) having worked less than 5 years. (Author/publisher)
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