Accelerated research, development and knowledge transfer is
critical to the success of high-income countries seeking to move
from current good practice and performance outcomes to the
long-term ’’safe-system’’ goal of eliminating deaths and serious
injuries on their roads. It is also critical to low and middle-income
countries operating at far poorer levels of performance and aiming
to move rapidly to current good practice outcomes and
beyond, within far shorter timeframes than those previously
experienced and suffered by high-income countries. Meeting
these priorities will require knowledge transfer, which will play
a pivotal role in the design and delivery of institutional reforms
and interventions aimed at refocusing and scaling up country
road safety programmes to more rapidly achieve higher levels
of performance [2].