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Mobility & Transport - Road Safety

Why use safety ratings?

The level of ambition associated with current European targets and safer system approaches and goals such as Sustainable Safety and Vision Zero requires:

Safety ratings today address such needs and are used as:

Ratings as interventions
The potential contribution of vehicle and road engineering measures to achieving interim national road safety targets and long term goals is very large
Ratings as monitoring tools
Vehicle and road network safety ratings provide a policy tool for monitoring the safety quality of the vehicle fleet and the road network and any interventions adopted in the national road safety strategy.