SUPREME - Summary and publication of best Practices in Road safety in the Eu Member States
The goal of SUPREME 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 will contribute to reaching the 50% reduction target of road fatalities, which the European Commission set in its White Paper "European transport policy for 2010: time to decide" (2001).
The work will be carried out by a comprehensive group of outstanding road safety institutions and experts, bringing along both excellence in the field and insight into specific conditions and institutional settings at the level of the 27 countries in the study area. Through their participation in numerous road safety research projects and working groups at European level, the project partners are well aware of similar work previously carried out in Europe.
The crucial task of the project lies with the sound identification of best practice from the vast amount of available measures. In order to facilitate this process, a set of tools for classification, selection and ranking of measures will be developed, along with guidelines for the assessment process at country level. On this basis, a network of Country Experts will gather information from various stakeholders. Questionnaires will be completed for each measure considered suitable to be included in the SUPREME framework. In addition, 27 country reports will be produced, describing the institutional setup of road safety work in partner states.
Analysis, synthesis and further selection of collected data will be carried out along roughly 10 categories of measures (covering all areas of road safety work), each of them led by a partner with outstanding experience in the specific field (Analysis Group). Thematic reports will 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 project will develop a framework and a general strategic outline for dissemination activities. Each Country Expert will provide a dissemination plan (including a list of contacts), along with a dissemination strategy, for the respective country. Two separate handbooks will be provided, one for the European level (European institutions, international organisations, global industries) and one for the Country level (Ministries, regions, local level: stakeholders, policy makers, practitioners and the interested public). Results of the project will be published on the Internet. Further dissemination activities will be carried out by several partners as a follow-up to the project.
