Improving Road Safety
in the OIC Member States
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Figure 2: Safe System
Source: Austroads, 2013
Safety interventions should target the highest concentrations of death and injuries on the road
network to achieve rapid and demonstrable improvements. Obviously the approach is driven by
measures of effectiveness and cost-benefit analyses and strives to demonstrate the highest gains
in terms of crash reduction at the lowest possible cost. The absence of reliable death and injury
data must not impede taking urgent action, but the building of countrywide data systems should
be an immediate focus.
Dialogue must also be initiated and sustained with international partners and stakeholders to
foster global and regional partnerships that can scale up and accelerate the process of building
the scientific, technological and managerial capacities required to prepare and implement
innovative and cost-effective road safety programs at the country level.
The Austroads Guide to Road Safety (Austroads, 2013) which was developed in Australia,
promotes a Safe System approach to road safety and has been produced for use in any country
irrespective of its development status or road safety performance. They draw on the World