Dr. Günter BreyerCEDR TG Road Safety, Vienna April 27, 2006 Road Safety during the Austrian EU Presidency Dr. Günter Breyer Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation, and Technology Road Directorate

Dr. Günter BreyerCEDR TG Road Safety, Vienna April 27, 2006 Slogan Slogan for all road safety activities during the Austrian EU presidency in the first half of 2006: „Crossing Borders in Road Safety – Creating a Trans-European Road Safety Culture“

Dr. Günter BreyerCEDR TG Road Safety, Vienna April 27, 2006  High Level Expert Meeting „Infrastructure Safety“, 24–25 January 2006, Vienna  Informal Meeting of Ministers of Transport, 2-3 March 2006, Bregenz  PIARC and CEDR „Road Safety“ Meetings, April 2006, Vienna Austrian events Road safety is the main issue of the transport ministry during the Austrian presidency

Dr. Günter BreyerCEDR TG Road Safety, Vienna April 27, 2006  Main focus: –Instruments and cost-benefit aspects of infrastructure safety management - Best practice exchange –EC working paper on infrastructure safety management  Participants: –More than 100 experts from 30 countries, EC representatives  Results: –Overview over state-of-the-art of infrastructure safety management in 31 European countries (results of a questionnaire) –Feedback to the EC regarding the paper on infrastructure safety management High Level Expert Meeting

Dr. Günter BreyerCEDR TG Road Safety, Vienna April 27, 2006  Main focus: –Mid-Term Review of the European Road Safety Action Programme –The three pillars of road safety Infrastructure (results of the High Level Expert Meeting) Vehicle (eSafety technology presentation at a drivers‘ training facility), and Road user (national awareness campaigns and joint European campaign)  Participants: –Ministers of Transport from 34 countries, EC vice-president Barrot  Results: –Agreement on a joint European road safety awareness campaign (subject will be either alcohol or fatigue) –Expression of the need to exchange road safety awareness campaign ideas and material and to share the copyrights on spots etc. Informal Meeting of Ministers

Dr. Günter BreyerCEDR TG Road Safety, Vienna April 27, 2006  Goal: halving road fatalities by 2010 (White Paper 2001) from to fatalities in the EU-25 by the year 2010  Road Safety Action Programme (2003) defines road safety as a “shared responsibility” and sets more than 60 measures to reach the target, most non-legislative  Mid-Term Review of the RSAP published in February 2006 Mid-Term Review 1/3 Background

Dr. Günter BreyerCEDR TG Road Safety, Vienna April 27, 2006  Intermediate results until 2005: –17.5%, fatalities  Estimated results for 2010: fatalities  -50% target can not be achieved without speeding up  Young people between 18 and 25 are the high-risk group (10% of population but 21% of fatalities in 2003)  Motorcyclists fatalities on the rise: +5.6% between 2000 and 2003 (while -12% overall)  if this trends continues every 3 rd fatality will be a motorcyclist in 2010 (every 6 th today) Mid-Term Review 2/3 Results 1

Dr. Günter BreyerCEDR TG Road Safety, Vienna April 27, 2006  Average reduction of fatalities : –14%  Differences in development ( ) Mid-Term Review 3/3 Results 2

Dr. Günter BreyerCEDR TG Road Safety, Vienna April 27, 2006 Infrastructure Safety Management Planned EC paper on infrastructure safety management  An unofficial working paper from summer 2005 was followed by an animated discussion in Member States  Discussion of various infrastructure safety management instruments at the High Level Expert Meeting on “Infrastructure Safety” in January  Public Consultation “Safer roads through infrastructure management” (deadline 19 May 2006)

Dr. Günter BreyerCEDR TG Road Safety, Vienna April 27, 2006 Vehicle Safety eSafety  Presentation and testing of e-Safety technologies at a drivers‘ training facility during meeting of transport ministers in March  In-Vehicle and Vehicle-Infrastructure related intelligent safety technologies Truck Safety  Public Consultation “Safer Trucks through Blind Spot Mirrors” (deadline 19 May 2006) Driving Education  Experiencing critical driving situation in driving camps

Dr. Günter BreyerCEDR TG Road Safety, Vienna April 27, 2006 Road Users Awareness building campaigns  Presentation of national awareness campaigns and their evaluation at the transport ministers’ meeting  Agreement on a joint European road safety poster campaign along the higher road network (either on alcohol or fatigue)  Creation of a European road safety day (starting in 2007)  Best practice exchange shall be fostered  Successful European awareness campaigns such as BOB and EUCHIRES will be continued

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