Improving Road Safety
in the OIC Member States
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Figure 4: Road safety management system
Source: Breen and Bliss, Building on the frameworks of Land Transport Authority, 2000; Wegman, 2001, Koornstra
et al. 2002; Bliss, 2004
These generic characteristics of the World Bank RSMS are as follows (adapted from Bliss and
Breen, 2009):
 The RSMS deals with road safety as a production process in the same approach one would
deal with the production of any other goods or services. This production process is depicted
as a management system comprising three levels, namely institutional management
functions which produce interventions that in turn produce results.
 The RSMS is a generic model that is neutral to country structures and cultures which shape
the way institutions function and goals are set and achieved.
 The management system can be used to review road safety management capacity and
prepare related strategies and programs, irrespective of the stage of road safety development
in the specific country.
 The RSMS can be applied to any land use/transportation system. The current and projected
exposure to risk arising from that system is taken as a given. However, land use/transport
trade-offs can be managed by considering these as options in the desired focus on results.
These can then be addressed by interventions related to the planning, design, operation and
use of the road network and the entry and exit of vehicles and road users to this network.