Title: Road safety in Central Europe : Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Czech Republic and Slovakia
Abstract: In 1992 and 1993, an international of six experts in road safety visited Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia to assess the situation of road safety and recommend actions to improve the road safety record of each country. The aim of this work was to help establish an effective policy to combat hazardous driving behavior on roads which is a real and rapidly worsening social scourge in Central Europe; appropriate steps should be taken immediately to ensure that these six countries experiencing rapid motorization do not repeat the tragic accident records which characterized Western Europe. Other objectives of the study were as follows: 1) to make a general assessment of the road safety situation; 2) to assess the cost/efficiency ratio of activities undertaken in the field of road safety and to propose, with the limited means available, a program of action classified by order of priority in order to improve safety on the roads; 3) to formulate concrete proposals for the incorporation of road safety concerns into road projects; 4) to demonstrate to the national governments and local communities the fact that a coordinated action program for road safety is both possible and urgent; and 5) to develop systematic methods of assessing the effectiveness of the institutional organization of road safety. The scope of the study covered all the components of a global road safety policy: road user behavior (education, training, communication, regulations, control and penalties), design and management of road infrastructures, the condition of new vehicles and vehicles on the road, organization of assistance to accident victims, the tools required to carry out a road safety policy, and funding road accident prevention. This report provides a summary analysis of the observations and recommendations made in the field of road safety for these countries.
Publication Year: 1993
Publication Date: 1993-11-30
Language: en
Type: article
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