Road traffic casualties in the elderly in Europe: analysis of macroscopic and in-depth data

Road traffic casualties in the elderly in Europe: analysis of macroscopic and in-depth dat

Building the European Road Safety Observatory. SafetyNet. Final Report on Task 1.5, Deliverable 1.5.

Building the European Road Safety Observatory. SafetyNet. Final Report on Task 1.5, Deliverable 1.5

EU transport accident, incident and casualty databases: current status and future needs

Accident and casualty databases are an indispensable tool to allow for objective assessment of the transport safety problem, the identification of priority areas for action and for monitoring the effectiveness of countermeasures. Such databases at European Union level are needed to describe the current state of transport safety across the EU, to help define target levels of safety for each of the transport modes and to facilitate a data-led systems approach in defining strategies. The process of creating a range of common data sources necessary for the development and monitoring of the Common Transport Policy began in 1993. Progress has been achieved, especially for road transport, but for other modes basic kinds of data are lacking at EU-level. In order to allow meaningful analyses within each mode and comparison across the modes, further progress is needed. The purpose of this report is to review the progress made in the development of databases on accidents, casualties and exposure measures for each transport mode and, where gaps exist, to try to identify various options for EU action

Building the European Road Safety Observatory. SafetyNet. D.1.14 CADaS - The common accident data set

An important objective within SafetyNet WP1 is to improve the compatibility of road accident data throughout Europe. Currently, the CARE database contains a large number of road accident variables in disaggregate form, but it is acknowledged that more variables and values are necessary to better describe and analyse the road accident phenomenon at EU level. Additionally, due to differences in the collected data variables and values, their definitions, the differences of the accident data collection forms structures and the relevant data formats among the existing national databases, both accident data quality and availability are affected. Moreover, many data variables included in CARE lack reliability as the data are in many cases incomplete (few countries available or incomplete time series). Therefore the need for a common accident framework which would significantly enhance the CARE database with new and more compatible among the EU countries data and would allow for a comprehensive set of end products from all EU-27 member states to be progressively produced is considered essential. After elaborating this Common Accident Data Set, every EU country that wishes to update its data collection system could optionally and gradually adopt this proposed common data set