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Ratings as monitoring tools

Ratings as monitoring tools

 

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.

Examples of performance indicators from safety rating systems in use or under development in Sweden (SRA 2006)

  • Percentage of vehicle mileage on roads that fulfil EuroRAP four stars (rural areas)
  • Percentage of vehicle mileage with vehicles that fulfil EuroNCAP five stars (newly registered)
  • Percentage of vehicle mileage with vehicles that fulfil EuroNCAP five stars (existing vehicle fleet)

EuroRAP, for example, provides an opportunity to produce a regular measure of safety performance on a consistent basis which shows in detail how risk is changing in different parts of the road network in different countries, and also shows the potential for improvement in a way that can be linked to specific programmes. It also shows how infrastructure improvements in each country could contribute to the EU target for casualty reduction [20].