Save Our Lives. A Comprehensive Road Safety Strategy for Central Europe

Programme 2007 - 2013 Central Europe

Date of latest update: 2021-04-06

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Description (EN):

Every year more than 40,000 people lose their lives on Europe’s roads. In the EU, 1 out of every 5 child deaths due to injury are a result of road crashes. While many western European countries are making continuous progress in reducing the number of lives lost, fatality rates in many new Member States in the Central Europe Programme area remain high and in some they are even increasing. With the exception of Hungary all other new Member States in Central Europe have been confronted with a rise in the number of fatalities on their roads in 2007 (in the Czech Republic by 15% and in Ukraine even by 38%). Central Europe clearly shows a higher number of road fatalities per million inhabitants than Western Europe. Within Central Europe, the highest value is observed in Poland (143 road fatalities per million inhabitants), followed by Slovenia (129), Hungary (128) and the Czech Republic (126)” compared to Italy (96), Austria (88), and Germany (62). In Central Europe road safety challenge has reached a magnitude that even puts the overall competitiveness, the attractiveness as location for working and investments as well as the quality of life in the most seriously affected parts of the cooperation area at considerable risk. Road crashes have a severe negative impact on the social and economic situation in all countries, costing up to 2 percent or more of the GDP. Even though there are some good practice examples also in the new Member States of the Central Europe area, where road safety has been addressed successfully in the past years, severe joint efforts will be required by all relevant stakeholders on all levels to make a contribution also within Central Europe to reach the overall policy goal set by the European Commission (EC) in 2003 within the 3rd Road Safety Action Programme: to halve the number of lives lost on our roads from 50,000 to 25,000 per year by 2010.

Achievements (EN):

The CENTRAL EUROPE project SOL aims to promote sustainable mobility and increase awareness for safety issues. SOL has the objective to enhance capacities of local and regional stakeholder to prevent road accidents in Central Europe. After a deep analysis of the situational assessment in the local implementation areas, Project Partners have developed Road Safety Strategies at community level, implementing all pilots' activities and organising meetings among their stakeholders communities. Through these meetings it was possible to implement the support of all communities to reduce the number of road accidents and trauma. The step forward was the development of community level road safety Action Plans aimed at implementing the developed strategies. Both Strategies and Action Plans have been discussed in specific workshops with politicians, police, Administrations, Technics, Healthy Sector representatives, Hospital representatives, NGOs. Strategies and Action Plans based on outcomes of the assessment consider national legislation and priorities and local capacity and interest. After these activities the pilot implementation has started in every communities. Pilot projects have been carried out through specific actions developed toghether with local Target Groups and through specific Road Safety campaigns. The objects of the 12 Pilot Actions have been: Two actions on Road Safety and Public Transport and Freight Transport (IT); Mobility Education (AT); Three Action on Cyclists, Children and Alcohol (HUN); Three actions on Children education and Drink and Drive (PL); One Action on Safe journey to school (CZ); One Action on Young Drivers (SK) and one action on the use of seat belts (SI). Among the activities of the pilot actions SOL project is designing a Transnational Campaign for gathering CE stakeholders to establish a strong cooperation for Road Safety. The transnational Road Safety network implementation was implemented and some SOL partners signed the European Road Safety Charter, a European participatory platform made up of enterprises, associations, research institutions and public authorities with more than 2.000 signatories. The partnership is now working to set up some permanent networks and the experts are drafting the Final Manual for road safety experts and for decision makers that will be presented during the Final Conference in Brussels on 27th May 2013.

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Transport and mobility Regional planning and development Safety

Partners (12)

Lead Partner: A.L.O.T. s.c.a r.l. Agenzia della Lombardia Orientale per i Trasporti e la Logistica

Address: Via Milano, 13, 25124 Brescia, Italy

Legal status: n/a

Forschungsgesellschaft Mobilität Austrian Mobility Research FGM-AMOR gemeinnützige GmbH

Name: Forschungsgesellschaft Mobilität Austrian Mobility Research FGM-AMOR gemeinnützige GmbH

Address: 8010 Graz, Austria

Legal status: n/a

Avto-moto Zveza Slovenije (AMZS)

Name: Avto-moto Zveza Slovenije (AMZS)

Address: 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Legal status: n/a

Geographisches Institut, Universität Tübingen

Name: Geographisches Institut, Universität Tübingen

Address: 72070 Tübingen, Germany

Legal status: n/a

GRSP Magyarország Egyesület

Name: GRSP Magyarország Egyesület

Address: 1039 Budapest, Hungary

Legal status: n/a

INSTYTUT TRANSPORTU SAMOCHODOWEGO

Name: INSTYTUT TRANSPORTU SAMOCHODOWEGO

Address: 03-301 Warsaw, Poland

Legal status: n/a

Partnerstwo dla Bezpieczeństwa Drogowego

Name: Partnerstwo dla Bezpieczeństwa Drogowego

Address: 00-052 Warszawa, Poland

Legal status: n/a

Združenie autoškôl Slovenskej republiky

Name: Združenie autoškôl Slovenskej republiky

Address: 8001 Prešov, Slovakia

Legal status: n/a

KTI Kozlekedestudomanyi Intezet Nonprofit Kft.

Name: KTI Kozlekedestudomanyi Intezet Nonprofit Kft.

Address: 1119 Budapest, Hungary

Legal status: n/a

Amt der Steiermärkischen Landesregierung, Fachabteilung 18A, Gesamtverkehr und Projektierung, Verkehrssicherheit und Telekommunikation

Name: Amt der Steiermärkischen Landesregierung, Fachabteilung 18A, Gesamtverkehr und Projektierung, Verkehrssicherheit und Telekommunikation

Address: 8010 Graz, Austria

Legal status: n/a

Žilinská univerzita v Žiline

Name: Žilinská univerzita v Žiline

Department: Research centre

Address: Univerzitná, 1026 Žilina, Slovakia

Legal status: public

Website: https://www.uniza.sk/menu/inc.php?ver=en

HBH Projekt spol. s r.o.

Name: HBH Projekt spol. s r.o.

Address: 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic

Legal status: n/a

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Forschungsgesellschaft Mobilität Austrian Mobility Research FGM-AMOR gemeinnützige GmbH

Save Our Lives. A Comprehensive Road Safety Strategy for Central Europe

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A.L.O.T. s.c.a r.l. Agenzia della Lombardia Orientale per i Trasporti e la Logistica

Save Our Lives. A Comprehensive Road Safety Strategy for Central Europe

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Avto-moto Zveza Slovenije (AMZS)

Save Our Lives. A Comprehensive Road Safety Strategy for Central Europe

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Geographisches Institut, Universität Tübingen

Save Our Lives. A Comprehensive Road Safety Strategy for Central Europe

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GRSP Magyarország Egyesület

Save Our Lives. A Comprehensive Road Safety Strategy for Central Europe

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INSTYTUT TRANSPORTU SAMOCHODOWEGO

Save Our Lives. A Comprehensive Road Safety Strategy for Central Europe

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Partnerstwo dla Bezpieczeństwa Drogowego

Save Our Lives. A Comprehensive Road Safety Strategy for Central Europe

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Združenie autoškôl Slovenskej republiky

Save Our Lives. A Comprehensive Road Safety Strategy for Central Europe

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KTI Kozlekedestudomanyi Intezet Nonprofit Kft.

Save Our Lives. A Comprehensive Road Safety Strategy for Central Europe

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Amt der Steiermärkischen Landesregierung, Fachabteilung 18A, Gesamtverkehr und Projektierung, Verkehrssicherheit und Telekommunikation

Save Our Lives. A Comprehensive Road Safety Strategy for Central Europe

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Žilinská univerzita v Žiline

Save Our Lives. A Comprehensive Road Safety Strategy for Central Europe

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HBH Projekt spol. s r.o.

Save Our Lives. A Comprehensive Road Safety Strategy for Central Europe

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Summary

Project name (EN): Save Our Lives. A Comprehensive Road Safety Strategy for Central Europe

Project acronym: SOL - Save Our Lives

Project start date: 2010-04-01

Project end date: 2013-03-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 3 504 757.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 2 844 085.00

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2007 - 2013 Central Europe

Latest month of project-partner-call data publication

2014-10

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

124 / 124 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

1 331 / 1 331 (100%)

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