EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MINISTERS OF TRANSPORT COUNCIL OF MINISTERS Council of Ministers ROAD TRANSPORT SAFETY ON RURAL ROADS IN EUROPE Recommendations

JT00127539 Document complet disponible sur OLIS dans son format d'origine Complete document available on OLIS in its original format CEMT/CM(2002)11/FINAL 2 Although still far from satisfactory, more progress has been made on road safety on motorways and urban roads over the past 20 years than on country roads. Rural roads are defined as roads outside urban areas that are not motorways or unpaved roads. A report published by the OECD in 1999 1 recommends that every country addresses the problem and develop a safety strategy specifically for the rural road network. While this issue has not yet been addressed within the ECMT framework, it is undeniably a very important one for Member countries as a whole, especially as the rural road network is by far the most extensive network in any country, whatever its specific circumstances, in terms of both kilometres covered and traffic.