Policy instruments for managing EU road safety targets: carrots, sticks or sermons?

This report investigates EU policy on road safety targets and the strategies used to achieve these targets. The outcome will be used to provide the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) with ideas to adopt these strategies in the United States. The FHWA and AASHTO desired a paper "that summarizes how the European Commission and its related transportation organizations have supported the setting of ambitious crash-reduction targets among its diverse 27 European members". The present paper goes slightly beyond this. Because the road safety targets are set for the EU as a whole and are not binding for the individual Member States, this paper also examines which other policy instruments the EU uses to help Member States to implement the road safety policy. The research questions answered in this report were as follows: 1. which policy instruments does the EU use to achieve its road safety targets? 2. are these policy instruments effective? 3. how can these measures be translated into suggestions for the US to set and achieve national road safety targets?

• Record URL:
  • http://www.swov.nl/rapport/R-2011-15.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV

  Bezuidenhoutseweg 62
  The Hague,   Netherlands  2594 AW
• Authors:
  • Bax, C
• Publication Date: 2011

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 32p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Highway safety; Performance measurement; Policy; Traffic safety
• Uncontrolled Terms: International comparison; Safe systems (roads)
• Geographic Terms: Europe
• ATRI Terms: Crash countermeasure; International comparison; Performance indicators; Policy; Road safety
• Subject Areas: Policy;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01381479
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Report/Paper Numbers: R-2011-15
• Files: ATRI
• Created Date: Aug 22 2012 12:13PM