Mots clé integrated urban planning; road traffic safety; transport infrastructure; transport services; capacity building

Integrating road injury prevention into sustainable transport and urban planning not only provides road safety, but also contributes to reducing congestion, emissions of noise and air pollutants, and to health gains associated with increased physical activity through safer walking and cycling.

The following measures have proven to be effective:

• Managing exposure to crash and injury risk
  Example: making routes for vulnerable road users safer
• Minimizing exposure to high-risk road traffic scenarios
  Example: graduated licensing systems for novice drivers were associated with a 9-43% reduction of crashes.
• Planning and designing roads for safety
  Example: urban speed limits and road infrastructure should take into account human limitations and injury thresholds.
• Providing visible, crashworthy, smart vehicles
  Example: legislative adoption of four cost-effective well-established tests to make car fronts safer for pedestrians in the event of a crash could prevent up to 2,000 deaths per year in the European Union alone.
• Setting road safety rules and securing compliance
  Example: implementing speed cameras to enforce speed limits in the United Kingdom led to 35% fewer fatal and serious injuries in road crashes at camera sites and 56% fewer fatal and serious casualties among pedestrians. Random breath testing in various countries at special checkpoints has reduced alcohol-related crashes overall by about 20%.