13 October 2010.ppt

* As president of FEHRL I ask your attention for the project Forever Open Roads. With this project FEHRL wants to tackle global challenges, such as climate change, carbon reduction, energy saving, as well as the increasing need for journey time reliability. In this project safety will be an integrated issue in all stages of development. More information of this project is available on the internet FEHRL is also presently involved in a DG MOVE financed project (PILOT4SAFETY) which aims to use the Directive 2008/96/CE on road infrastructure safety management as a template for safety application on regional roads. The European Parliament and Council on 19/11/2008 issued the Directive 2008/96/CE which foresees a series of safety checks, as well as training and certification of road safety auditors. When the Directive is adopted by the Member States, it will apply only to TEN-T road network (covering only a part of EU Highways), while the highest number of fatalities occurs on the so-called “secondary roads” * To overcome this barrier, PILOT4SAFETY aims to apply the Directive’s approach on some selected secondary roads in the EU regions represented in the project. The idea is to share good practices and define common agreed training curricula and tools for the qualification of road safety personnel. * Rijkswaterstaat 13 October 2010 Contribution to Road Safety by infrastructure Joris Al, General-Director Centre for Transport and Navigation, Ministry of Transport and Public Waterways. The Netherlands; and President of * 13 October 2010 Fatalities on the roads in Europe … * 13 October 2010 Number of fatalities in the Netherlands 1950-2009 2009: 720 1972: 3500 2010:750 2020:500 * 13 October 2010 Measures for road safety in the Netherlands from 1950 onwards * 13 October 2010 Measures for road safety in the Netherlands from 1950 onwards * 13 October 2010 Measures: Motorways High standards Integrated safety approach * 13 October 2010 Managed Motorways: the 2 Basic