SUPREME (SUmmary and Publication of Best Practices in Road Safety in the EU-MEmber States plus Switzerland and Norway) was launched by the European Commission (DG TREN). It started in December 2005 and was finalised in June 2007. A total of 31 national and international road safety organisations were involved as project partners. The main objectives of the project were: * the sound identification and publication of Best Practice from the vast amount of available measures; * the development of a strategic approach and a framework for dissemination activities of the key findings in the 27 target countries. SUPREME covers a large variety of road safety measures at various levels. The whole process has resulted in 14 deliverables: * Methodology (Final Report, Part A); * List of measures collected and analysed (Final Report, Part B). * Best Practices in road safety - Handbook for Measures at the Country Level (Final Report, Part C); * Best Practices in Road safety - Handbook for Measures at the European Level (Final report, Part D); * Review of Implementation at the Country Level (Final Report, Part E); * Part F1 Thematic Report: Education and Campaigns; * Part F2 Thematic Report: Driver Education, Training and Licensing; * Part F3 Thematic Report: Rehabilitation and Diagnostics; * Part F4 Thematic Report: Vehicles; * Part F5 Thematic Report: Infrastructure; * Part F6 Thematic Report: Enforcement; * Part F7 Thematic Report: Statistics and In-depth analysis; * Part F8 Thematic Report: Institutional Organisation of Road Safety; * Part F9 Thematic Report: Post Accident Care. Part A of the Final Report (this report) gives a detailed overview on the methodological approach and outlines the major steps and the work organisation of SUPREME. The methodological approach was based on: * A comprehensive discussion and definition of Best Practice as a foundation for tool development i.e. in particular the questionnaires for standardised reporting of examples. * A detailed focus on selection criteria which have played a major role as analytical backbone of the study. * A detailed data collection in 27 countries (25 EU-Member States plus Norway and Switzerland). The collection was organised and supervised by a network of country experts. A list of all submitted Best Practice nominations can be found in Part B of the Final Report. * Additionally, a questionnaire with an open, narrative format was used to gather information from key road safety experts in European as well as international road safety institutions. * Subsequently, an in-depth-analysis of all collected measures was carried out in order to select the “final” set of Best Practice measures. This task was carried out along 9 areas of road safety work by selected experts of the SUPREME consortium. * Finally, all 27 country expert were asked to give feedback to the selection of Best Practice Measures and to report about state of implementation from a national perspective as well as about the intended dissemination strategies at national level. A full repository of the project can be found under the following link: http://ec.europa.eu/transport/supreme/index_en.htm - the website presents the detailed description of the 250 submitted Best Practice nominations. (Author/publisher)
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