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ETSC's contribution to the future of road safety in Europe. Perspectives to 2020 and beyond
Elizabeth Townsend
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Abstract
This paper will outline ETSC’s contribution to the European Union’s road safety policy 2011 - 2020. It will present some of the main recommendations from ETSC’s blueprint for the 4th Road Safety Action Programme and will introduce the response to the European Commission’s Road Safety Policy Orientations 2011 - 2020 (published July 2010). The second framework document presented is the Transport White Paper (published March 2011). The paper will focus on new targets and the new vision set for Europe’s road safety policy picking out some issues in particular such as traffic law enforcement and the protection of vulnerable road users. It will argue that by reinforcing the current Road Safety Policy Orientations, the EU will be better placed to reach its new ambitious goal of halving road deaths by 2020 and the longer term zero casualty vision. (A) Keynote speech at the 5th International Conference on ESAR Expert Symposium on Accident Research, 7th to 8th September 2012 in Hannover.