Society backs research to help meet safety targets

08 May 2008

The CSS has initiated a £30,000 research project to help local authorities meet 2010 road safety targets.

It will focus mainly on rural roads, and aims to produce guidance and best practice on route safety. It will be run by the CSS Traffic and Safety Working Group, which will co-ordinate with the Department for Transport and the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS).

Project leader, Rob Salmon, said: ‘This project is all about treating existing roads and understanding why there are more accidents on some sections than others. We will be looking, in particular, at the causal links between route safety intervention and change in driver or rider behaviour, and how these might be extended and evaluated.’

It is hoped the guidance will help local authorities meet government targets, set in 2000, for a 40% reduction in fatal and serious road casualties by 2010.

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