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Eur. Transp. Res. Rev. (2012) 4:175– 188 DOI 10.1007/s12544-012-0081-x ORIGINAL PAPER An examination of the national road-safety programs in the ten world’s leading countries in road safety Victoria Gitelman Limor Hendel Roby Carmel Shlomo Bekhor Received: 6 June 2012 /Accepted: 14 June 2012 /Published online: 12 July 2012 # The Author(s) 2012. This article is published with open access at SpringerL Abstract during the program’s performance. The study demonstrated Purpose This study examined the national road safety pro- a high similarity of main safety problems characteristic for grams carried out by the ten world’s leading countries in the majority of leading countries, and for Israel. Thus, the road safety, aiming to identify the most effective interven- summaries of safety interventions adopted by those tions that contributed to safety progress in those countries countries were applicable for addressing similar problems and to consider the possibilities of their application in Israel. in local conditions. Most safety interventions associated Method The best-performing countries were selected from with the countries ’ safety progress over the last decade came European and other developed countries, using general safe- from the well-recognized areas of infrastructure and en- ty indicators and the rate of road safety improvement forcement, whereas for some common safety problems, achieved recently. The program documents and related e.g. motorcyclist injury, driving fatigue, elderly vulnerabil- reports published in the countries were screened aiming to ity, prominent solutions are lacking. sum up safety problems in the countries examined, safety