SUPREME - SUmmary and publication of best Practices in Road safety in the Eu MEmber States
Overview
Background & policy context:
In general, implementation of road safety measures is a highly complex process which bears a lot of opportunities and risks for all parties involved. These stakeholders may consider a lot of criteria for definition of their political position and their strategies. However, it can be supposed that any stakeholder getting active has a certain interest to solve a specific road safety problem and absolutely no interest in going wrong. These interests resulted in a strategy relatively new to the field of road safety: "Best Practice". In order to support this particular approach towards successful road safety work, the European Commission, DG Energy & Transport, has taken the initiative to support and fund a large cooperative exercise towards identification and dissemination of Best Practice solutions for road safety problems.
Objectives:
The goal of SUPREME is to collect, analyse, summarise and publish best practices in road safety in the Member States of the European Union as well as in Switzerland and Norway. The target audiences of the project are decision and policy makers at all levels, from European to local, as well as the scientific community and practitioners in the field. The aim is to provide user specific information on outstanding safety measures with a view to implementation in other countries or at the European level. Measures will be looked at from different perspectives: classes of road users concerned, scope of implementation and type of organisation implementing the measure.
Methodology:
Analysis, synthesis and further selection of collected data was carried out along 9 categories of measures, covering all areas of road safety work. A set of 8 criteria has been developed to assess the proposed measures. Thematic reports have given a detailed description of best available practices for each of these categories, featuring basic characteristics such as target groups, quantitative and qualitative goals, key issues, duration of implementation and effects, coverage, costs, actors involved and implementation procedures. These results have been given a second stage of feedback from the country experts and involvement of organisations at European and international level on order to identify key success factors and potential implementation barriers in other countries or at the European level. The results have been synthesized into 3 core products. The "Handbook for measures at the Country Level" addresses road safety measures, which can be implemented Member States' governments, by regional or local authorities. Measures more or exclusively suitable for implementation at supra-national level were summarised within the " Handbook for measures at The European Level".
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