Improving Road Safety
in the OIC Member States
3
Investment in road safety
Road safety casualties
Time
Establishment Growth Maturity
Source: Ecorys and SWOV
Typical road safety characteristics for the five road safety pillars, as well as road safety data, can
be linked to the road safety development phases, as presented in the table below.
Development
Phases
Establishment Growth Consolidation
Road safety
management
 No/limited political
will
 Limited interaction
between
stakeholders
 Lack of coordination,
no integrated
approach
 Limited funding
 Weak legal
framework
 Limited supporting
research
 No local research
 Road safety growing
concern with
political support.
 Limited funding
 Treatment
segregated
 Limited coordination
 Limited local
research
 Limited monitoring
evaluation
 Fair legislative
framework
 Well-developed
political support
 Fair to high degree of
integrated
coordination
 Fair to adequate
funding
 Supporting
legislative regulatory
framework
 Intergraded action
programme
 Targeted research
Safer roads and
mobility
 Underdeveloped
road network
 Limited sized
network
 Poor road conditions
 Lack of road
standards
 Limited capacity in
road management
 Limited attention for
vulnerable road
users
 Developing road
network
 Varying design
standards
 Fair road
maintenance
 Limited attention for
vulnerable road
users
 Developing public
transportation
facilities
 Developed road
network
 Good public
transport facilities
 Integrated planning
and development
 Multimodal systems
 Good quality
facilities
Safer vehicles  Low car ownership
and low vehicle
mileage
 Limited vehicle
standards
 Growing car
ownership
 High age of vehicles
 Developing public
transportation
 Stabilised car
ownership
 Low age of vehicles
 International vehicle
standards applied