Improving Road Safety
in the OIC Member States
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Under Pillar 1: Road Safety Management there are six primary activities identified:
1. Adhering and implementing UN agreements and conventions including the Convention on
road Traffic (1998); the Convention and signs and Signals (1968) and the AETR (1970).
2. Establishing a lead agency responsible for road safety.
3. Develop a national road safety strategy, the implementation of which is to be co-ordinated
by the lead agency.
4. Setting of realistic long term road safety targets aimed at performance improvement and
gains.
5. Identifying and securing sustainable national funding sources (including aspects such as
applying 10% of road infrastructure budgets to road safety improvement; innovative
funding; budgeting targets etc.).
6. Establishing reliable and sustainable data collection systems needed to support the
evaluation and monitoring of road safety in general but also of improvement projects in
particular.
Pillar 2: Safer road and mobility also lists six core activities:
1. Promoting road safety ownership and accountability among road authorities.
2. Promoting the needs of all road users as part of sustainable transport planning, travel
demand management and land use management, including making safety impact
assessments part of the process, implementing effective access control strategies, etc.
3. Promoting the safe operation, maintenance and improvement of existing road infrastructure
by increasing the accountability of road authorities in road safety management (including
requiring them to provide detailed analysis of blackspots, remedial programmes and actions;
conducting safety assessments and inspections, etc.).
4. Promoting the development of safe new infrastructure that meets the needs of all road users
(including the setting of safety standards and requiring road authorities to adhere to these,
conducting road safety audits and Network Safety Impact Assessments).
5. Encouraging capacity building and knowledge transfer through partnerships, training and
education and development of standards.
6. Encouraging research and development in safer roads through specific research and sharing
and interchanging of research findings.
Pillar 3: Safer Vehicles proposes seven core activities:
1. Encouraging member states to apply and promulgate vehicle standards and regulations
based on those developed by the UN.
2. Encouraging the implementation of new car assessment programmes throughout the world.
3. Encouraging agreements whereby all new vehicles are equipped with seatbelts and
anchorages and that meet regulatory requirements and comply with required crash
standards.
4. Encourage the deployment of crash avoidance technology in cars and motorcycles.
5. Encourage the use of incentives for vehicles with high levels of road used protection and
discourage use and import of vehicles with lower safety standards.
6. Stimulate the application of pedestrian and other vulnerable road user protection
regulations.