European road safety knowledge

Development of the European Road Safety Knowledge System... 

All these web texts were initially developed in SafetyNet and updated in DaCoTA, under the supervision of an editorial group (SafetyNet) and editorial board (DaCoTA), both consisting of international road safety experts, who were responsible for producing the information about a specific road safety subject. Both editions of the web texts (SafetyNet and DaCoTA) are available in the European Road Safety Knowledge System. 

The European Road Safety Knowledge System can also serve as example for the further errhancemerrt of the European Road Safety Observatory (ERSO), as new stmctures and features have been tested durirrg the development procedure and new data, knowledge and analysis outputs have been assembled and have become available for incorporation irrto the existing ERSO. 

Moreover, it is noted that decision making of national and international authorities and stakeholders will significantly benefit from the operation of a powerful European Road Safety Observatory making available complete data sets and targeted road safety airalyses and syntheses, since more data and more knowledge widely available will progressively lead to the corttinuing reduction of casualties at the European roads. 

The safety issues part is the knowledge base meant for the Integrated Road Safety Observatory of the European Commission, where the user can find high quality information on important road safety issues in the form of web texts. The information is scientifically based, easy to read and ready to use. For each of the subject treated, the information consists of an overview of the magnitude of the problem, prevalence and countermeasures. The subjects are broadly related to age groups, road users, hazardous behavior, post-crash, road safety measures and policy issues. 

The Social Attitudes to Road Traffic Risk in Emope (SARTRE) project started in 1991. It consists of a European wide survey about knowledge of road traffic laws and road traffic risks, attitudes regarding road safety issues, repotted road traffic behaviors, transport habits and needs in several European countries. Variorrs topics related to road safety are the focus of the project such as alcohol, drags or phone use while driving, speeding, use of advanced driver assistance systems and the transport infrastructure and envirorunent. After the first edition of SARTRE, a follow-up was performed in 1996 (SARTRE2) and 2002 (SARTRE 3). For this fourth edition of the... 

SAF 09] Safety Net, Alcohol. Project co-financed by the European Commission, available at http //ec.europa.eu/transport/road safe1y/specialist/knowledge/alcohoEindex.htm, 2009. 

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