Road Safety and Speed Management: A Study Led by the Motorists' Forum

This study has been initiated by the Motorists’ Forum in response to an invitation from the Commission for Integrated Transport for the Forum to help develop the (United Kingdom) Government's road safety strategy and a request by the Secretary of State for Transport to undertake a more detailed investigation of speed management. The report concludes that speed is a contributory factor in accidents and that the management of speed is an important element in any successful effort to reduce deaths and injuries on the roads. But to devise a strategy which is both effective and commands the support of the motoring public is not straightforward. This report sets out the authors' approach. It recognises that the interaction between the road, the vehicle and the driver is complex, and that effective action will involve many players. All of them need to commit to programmes of coordinated action in a whole range of areas including engineering, technology, training, communication, regulation and its enforcement.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Commission for Integrated Transport

  Zone F16, Ashdown House, 123 Victoria Street
  London SW1E 6DE,   England 
• Publication Date: 2005-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Appendices;
• Pagination: 33p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Communication; Coordination; Drivers; Engineering; Fatalities; Highway safety; Highways; Injuries; Motor vehicles; Regulation; Speed control; Strategic planning; Technology; Traffic crashes; Traffic law enforcement; Traffic safety; Training
• Uncontrolled Terms: Interaction
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• Subject Areas: Education and Training; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01006332
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 18 2005 2:18PM