1 The SUPREME project
The objective of the SUPREME project is to collect, analyse, summarise and publish best practices in
road safety in the Member States of the European Union as well as in Switzerland and Norway, with
a view to implementation in as many partner states as possible. By making the study results
available to a broad target audience across Europe – and thereby encouraging the take‐up of
successful strategies – the project wants to contribute to reaching the 50% reduction target of road
fatalities, which the European Commission set in its White Paper ʺEuropean transport policy for
2010: time to decideʺ (2001).
Analysis, synthesis and further selection of collected data were carried out along nine categories of
measures and cover all areas of road safety work.
1. Education & Campaigns
2. Driver Education, Training & Licensing
3. Rehabilitation and Re‐Licensing
4. Vehicles (incl. ITS)
5. Infrastructure (incl. ITS)
6. Enforcement
7. Statistics & In‐depth Analysis
8. Institutional Organisation of Road Safety
9. Post Accident Care
In order to avoid overlapping between these categories, a detailed list of subcategories and – in some
cases including even sub‐subcategories ‐ has been provided.
Accordingly, nine ʺThematic Reportsʺ (of which one is the volume in front of you) shall give a
detailed description of best available practices for each of these categories, featuring basic
characteristics such as target groups, quantitative and qualitative goals, key issues, duration of
implementation and effects, coverage, costs, actors involved, implementation procedures as well as
key success factors and potential implementation barriers in other countries or at the European
level.
The crucial task of the project lies within the sound identification of best practice from the vast
amount of available measures. In order to facilitate this process, a set of tools for collection,
classification, selection and ranking of measures has been developed, along with guidelines for the
assessment process at country level. As the common basis of all further activities, a list of eight best
practice criteria was developed and transferred into a questionnaire. While the major part of this
questionnaire consisted of a common set of core elements, some questions also addressed key
features for each category.
On this basis, the SUPREME network of ʺCountry Expertsʺ has provided information from various
stakeholders in cooperation with the respective Analysis Group members. Although 227
questionnaires have been completed, not all subcategories of road safety measures have been
addressed. So this is the first step of data collection.
As an additional step a list of road safety measures, that had not been covered by questionnaires but
were considered potential best practices by the SUPREME consortium, was compiled. Additional