Improving Road Safety
in the OIC Member States
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Safer roads and
mobility
 Develop Road
network
categorisation plans
 Develop appropriate
functional and
operational
characteristics for
road types
 Setting of appropriate
speed limits
 Encourages PT use
 Develops strategies
and plans for
vulnerable road users
 Secures funding for
development projects
 Implements large
scale remedial road
improvement projects
 Implements strategic
road network
development plans
 Implements large
scale improvement
projects for vulnerable
road users
 Adopts an integrated
approach to road
infrastructure
planning and
provision
 Adopts a Safe Systems
Approach to road
design
 Maintains road
network standards
 Continual
improvement and
review of road
design standards and
approaches
 Conducts road safety
audits, Road safety
inspections and
reviews network
safety management
 Develops and funds
demonstration
projects in areas
which offer large
potential for road
casualty reduction
and uses the
successful results to
roll-out the projects
nationally
Safer vehicles  Establish vehicle
registration registers
 Develop minimum
standards for entry of
vehicles on public
roads
 Develop
roadworthiness
criteria and
monitoring systems
 Develop enforcement
strategies
 Set standards and
regulations regarding
the use of vehicles
 Maintain and improve
vehicle registration
and licensing
 Vehicle
roadworthiness
 Vehicle standards
 Traffic offence
monitoring of
roadworthiness
 Public transportation
vehicle standards
 Commercial vehicle
standards
 Set safety standards
and rules and
legislate the use of
vehicles on public
roads
 Enforce and control
standards
continually
 Make certain safety
features compulsory
to vehicles using the
road network
 Lobby
manufacturers to
provide standard
safety features
 prohibit certain
vehicles
 Campaigning among
potential buyers to
buy vehicles with
higher safety ratings
etc.