Road safety strategies and action plans
Recommendation 3 of the World report on road traffic injury prevention encourages countries to prepare a road safety strategy that is multisectoral and multidisciplinary. The strategy should take into account the needs of all road users, including vulnerable road users. The road safety strategy needs to set ambitious, but realistic targets for at least five or ten years. Once the road safety strategy has been prepared, a national action plan, scheduling specific actions and allocating specific resources, should be developed.
Examples of regional road safety strategies
- ASEAN road safety strategy
- European Region: European road safety action programme
- OECD countries: Safety on roads: What's the vision
- OECD countries: Keeping children safe in traffic
- Sweden, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands: The SUNflower report [pdf 949kb]
Examples of national road safety strategies
- Australia: The national road safety strategy: 2001-2010
- Australia, state of Western Australia: Towards Zero strategy for 2008–2020
- Australia, State of Victoria: Arrive Alive
- Austria: Road safety programme 2002-2010 [pdf 1.3Mb]
- Canada: Road safety vision 2010 [pdf 4.9Mb]
- Denmark: Every accident is one accident too many - road safety starts with you
- France: Les actions locales de sécurité routière
- Korea (in Korean): Road safety plan 2002-2006
- Netherlands: Sustainable safety [pdf 153kb]
- New Zealand: Strategic plan to 2006
- Norway: Road safety in Norway, Strategy 2002–2011 [pdf 452kb]
- Sweden: Vision Zero
- United Kingdom: Tomorrows roads, safer for everyone: First 3 year review
- United States of America: Strategic plan 2003-2008
- United States of America: Performance plan 2004