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  • Ajoneuvohallintokeskus AKEn
    AKE (Finnish Vehicle Administration) promotes vehicle safety and environmental-friendliness and provides vehicle information services for private citizens, state authorities and companies. AKE operates under the aegis of the Ministry of Transport and Communications.
  • ANSR - Autoridade Nacional de Segurança Rodoviária
    The National Road Safety Authority - ANSR - is the Portuguese public entity, under the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in charge of road safety coordination and the application of Road Penalty Law.
  • Bundesamt für Strassen (ASTRA)
    Seit seiner Gründung 1998 ist das Bundesamt für Strassen (ASTRA) die Schweizer Fachbehörde für die Strasseninfrastruktur und den individuellen Strassenverkehr.
    Im Verantwortungsbereich des eidgenössischen Departements für Umwelt, Verkehr, Energie und Kommunikation (UVEK) wirkt es für eine nachhaltige und sichere Mobilität auf der Strasse.
  • Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie
    Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology
  • CARE - Community Road Accident Database
    CARE is a Community database on road accidents resulting in death or injury (no statistics on damage - only accidents). The major difference between CARE and most other existing international databases is the high level of disaggregation, i.e. CARE comprises detailed data on individual accidents as collected by the Member States.
  • CEDEX (Centro de Estudios y Experimentación de Obras Públicas)
    The Transport Studies Centre (Centro de Estudios de Transporte) is, within CEDEX, the organization specialized in the design, construction and management of road networks, traffic engineering and road safety.
  • Centre for Tunnel Safety
    The Centre for Tunnel Safety co-ordinates, expands and broadens this existing knowledge. Knowledge about (underground) constructions and the safety precautions thus applicable are of great importance, as is a risks analysis and insight into traffic related aspects as well as human behaviour in cases of disaster.
    The Centre gears itself towards an integrated reflection of both the prevention of disasters, as well as self-rescuing and emergency services.
  • Conseil National de Sécurité Routière
    Créé par décret du 28 août 2001 et installé le 25 octobre 2001, le Conseil National de la Sécurité Routière est associé à l'élaboration et à l'évaluation de la politique des pouvoirs publics en matière de sécurité routière.
    Ces principales missions sont:
    - proposer au gouvernement des mesures en faveur de la sécurité routière
    - procéder à des évaluations des actions engagées.
  • CORDIS - Community Research & Development Information Service
    CORDIS represents the R&D starting point. As an integral part of the European Commission's INNOVATION Programme, CORDIS provides information on a vast range of research, development and innovation activities undertaken on a European level.
    It offers a wide range of services that keep you current on R&D and innovation activities that are occurring within the EU.
  • CSDD - Ceļu satiksmes drošības departaments
    Since June 5, 1997, CSDD (Road Traffic Safety Department) is non-profit state stock company and in accordance with the Statutes deals with the registration of vehicles, examination of drivers and issuing of driver’s licenses, periodic technical inspection, supervision of roads and maintaining of the State Register of Vehicles and Drivers.
  • Danish Road Directorate - Vejdirektoratet - en del af Transport- og Energiministeriet
    The Danish Road Directorate (DRD), Ministry of Transport, Denmark, is responsible for the administration and operation of the 1,623 km national road network. Its tasks consist of planning, construction, improvement, maintenance and operation of the network and provision of services and traffic information to all road users.
  • Danish Road Safety and Transport Agency (Færdselsstyrelsen)
    Denmark’s Road Safety and Transport Agency is an independent administrative body within the Danish Ministry of Transport.
    The agency’s areas of responsibility are principally:
    -to enforce Danish legislation regarding commercial transport.
    - to promote environmentally-friendly road transport.
  • Department for Transport
    The Department for Transport's aim is transport that works for everyone. This means a transport system which balances the needs of the economy, the environment and society.
    The Department for Transport provides leadership across the transport sector to achieve its objectives, working with regional, local and private sector partners to deliver many of the services. This section contains information on the Department's aims and objectives, its organisational structure, and the responsibilities of the various affiliated agencies.
  • Department of Transport and the Marine
    To ensure the provision, development and regulation of competitive, safe and secure integrated transport services and transport infrastructure for the road, rail and air transport modes in Ireland.
  • Dienst Verkeer en Scheepvaart (DVS)
    The Transport and Navigation Department (TND), as a specialist service, is part of the Directorate General of the Department of Public Works of the Ministry of Transport. It fulfils a central role as traffic and transport knowledge centre, and as such is involved in policy making and implementation of these aspects.
  • Directorate-General Energy and Transport
    The Directorate-General for Energy and Transport is responsible for developing and implementing European policies in the energy and transport field. Its mission is to ensure that energy and transport policies are designed for the benefit of all sectors of the society, businesses, cities, rural areas and above all of citizens.
  • Direkcija Republike Slovenije za ceste
    The Directorate of the Republic of Slovenia for Roads is a body within the Ministry of Transport. It undertakes: professional-technical, developmental, organisational and administrative tasks relating to the construction, maintenance and protection of main and regional roads as well as some expressways; tasks relating to transport in road freight and passenger traffic; and vehicle type approval.
  • ECR
    Euro Contrôle Route is a group of European Transport Inspection Services working together to enhance the quality of enforcement in order to improve road safety, compliance with road transport legislation and to promote fair competition.
  • Estonian Motor Vehicle Registration Centre (Eesti Riiklik Autoregistrikeskus)

    Main Activities of ARK

    • The registration of motor vehicles and their trailers, maintaining the register and archives
    • Giving the right to drive and issuing driving licences, maintaining the register and archives
    • Methodical guiding and monitoring the level of drivers training
    • Monitoring and supervising the execution of motor vehicles and their trailers roadworthiness tests
    • Confirming the type compliance with the national technical requirements for vehicles and issuing the relevant type-codes
    • Monitoring and supervising the technical testing authorities executing the technical expertise of the vehicles, their parts and equipment.
  • Estonian Road Administration
    The main functions of the Estonian Road Administration are:
    - organising road management and creating conditions for safe traffic on the roads in the state ownership;
    - exercising state supervision over the compliance with the requirements established by legislation regulating the ERA’s area of activity and, where necessary, applying enforcement powers of the state;
    - participating in the development of the legislation regulating the ERA’s area of activity and making recommendations for amending and supplementing legislation, including improving Estonian terminology;
    - participating in the development of policies, strategies, and development plans in the ERA’s area of activity;
    - preparing and implementing projects in the ERA’s area of activity, including participating in the preparation and implementation of international projects.
  • Euro NCAP
    Euro NCAP provides motoring consumers with a realistic and independent assessment of the safety performance of some of the most popular cars sold in Europe.
    With our new and improved website you can easily make comparisons between the cars that interest you and even view films of their crash tests. And don't forget ESC - that can help make your journey even safer. Check out our new ESC fitment rating. If you want to know the safety performance of your current or future car - this is where to look!
  • Europese Unie
    Basic information about the European Union: the rights of citizens, main themes such as the euro and employment; access to official documents, legal texts, publications, databases, information sources, etc., etc. Among other things, information about DG VII - Transport.
  • Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs - Bundesministeriums für Verkehr, Bau und Stadtentwicklung
    Our transport policy pursues the principle of sustainability. We ensure mobility and simultaneously overcome its negative effects. This includes reducing resource consumption and pollutant emissions. This is achieved by optimising the transport system as a whole and the innovativeness of the mobility industry itself. New transport telematics and traffic guidance system applications are able to smooth out traffic flows, find optimal routes and logistically track freight. Transfer and combined usage are additionally facilitated by linking the various modes of transport.
    The Federal Government's aim is for all modes of transport in union to form an efficient and modern overall transport system. As a result of this, regions of high traffic density can be relieved, creating development opportunities for structurally weak areas at the same time. With innovative system solutions, such an overall transport system also ensures increased traffic safety. On roads, rails, water and in the air.
  • Federale Overheidsdienst Mobiliteit en Vervoer - Service public fédéral Mobilité et Transports
    Federal Government of Mobility and Transport.
    Site in Dutch and French.
  • FHWA - Federal Highway Administration
    The vision of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is to create the best transportation system in the world for the American people through proactive leadership, innovation, and excellence in service. We also provide expertise, resources, and information to continually improve the quality of our nation's highway system and its intermodal connections.
  • Finnra - Finnish National Road Administration
    The Finnish National Road Administration maintains public roads and provides for safe and convenient traveling in Finland.
  • Garda Síochána - Ireland's National Police Service
  • Gazdasági és Közlekedési Minisztérium
    Ministry of Economy and Transport (GKM)
  • Hellenic Ministry of Transport and Communications
    The mission of the Ministry of Transport and Communication is:
    - to plan and implement national policy and create the appropriate institutional framework at European and international level for the development of top quality transport, mass-transit, telecom and postal services under conditions of healthy competition;
    - to ensure the safety of transport, mass-transit and telecommunications;
    to promote the Information Society;
    - to contribute to the country's economic development and to the improvement of its citizens quality of life in the areas falling under the Ministry's responsibility.
  • Highways Agency
    The Highways Agency, established in 1994, is an executive agency of the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions. The Secretary of State is responsible for overall Government policy on motorways and trunk roads in England and determining the strategic framework and the financial resources within which it operates.
  • INSERR - Institut National de Sécurité Routière et de Recherches
    L’INSERR est une ECOLE chargée de la conception et de la mise en œuvre de la formation de différents acteurs de la sécurité routière qui sont soumis à une obligation de formation pour exercer leur activité.
  • International Transport Forum
    In May 2005, Ministers agreed in Moscow that the ECMT should be transformed into a publicly recognised international Ministerial forum, designed to increase the understanding of the importance of transport. In Dublin, in May 2006, they established the International Transport Forum.
    The aim of the Forum is to foster a deeper understanding among policy makers and wider audiences of the role of transport as a key to economic growth and of transport’s impact on the environmental and social dimensions of sustainability.
  • Kennisinstituut voor Mobiliteitsbeleid (KiM)
    Meer weten over mobiliteit. Dat is waar het Kennisinstituut voor Mobiliteitsbeleid (KiM) zich mee bezighoudt. Als zelfstandig instituut binnen het ministerie van Verkeer en Waterstaat (VenW) maakt het KiM verkenningen en beleidsanalyses voor mobiliteitsbeleid waarmee de strategische basis voor dat beleid wordt versterkt.
    Het KiM is gepositioneerd binnen VenW. De inhoud van de producten van het KiM is vrij van beleidsmatige en politieke sturing. De beleidsonderdelen van VenW en de Inspectie Verkeer en Waterstaat zijn betrokken bij de programmering van de activiteiten van het KiM.
  • Krajowa Rada Bezpieczeństwa Ruchu Drogowego
    National Road Safety Council
  • Latvijas Valsts ceïi
    The Latvian State Roads performs the management of the state road network, administration of the State Road Fund and organisation of public procurement in order to provide the publics with profitable, durable, safe and environmentally friendly state road network. Maintenance and development of parish, company and household roads is supervised, as well.
  • Lietuvos automobilių kelių direkcija prie Susisiekimo ministerijos
    The Lithuanian Road Administration under the Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Lithuania is an enterprise founded by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania which is in charge of organizing and co-ordinating the reconstruction, maintenance and development of the roads of national significance.
  • Lietuvos Respublikos Susisiekimo Ministerija
    Ministry of Transport and Communications of Lithuania
  • Liikenne- ja viestintäministeriö
    The Ministry of Transport and Communications of Finland promotes national well-being and the efficient functioning of society by making sure that people, commerce and industry have access to high-quality, safe and reasonably priced transport and communications networks, and by furthering the competitiveness of transport and communications companies.
  • Malta Transport Authority
    To plan and provide for a sustainable, high quality, safe, integrated and efficient land transport system that will meet the travelling needs of people and the transport requirements for the movement of goods within the national framework for economic development, social inclusion and protection of the environment.
  • Ministère de l'Ecologie, du Développement et de l'Aménagement durables
    French ministry responsible for road safety
  • Ministerie Verkeer & Waterstaat
    This is the official website of the Ministry of Transport.
  • Ministero delle Infrastrutture e dei Trasporti
  • Ministerstvo dopravy
    Ministry of Transport.
  • Ministerstvo dopravy, pôšt a telekomunikácií
    Ministry of Transport, Posts and Telecommunications
  • Ministrstvo za promet
    The Ministry of Transport performs activities concerning: the preparation, monitoring and implementation of transport policy and relevant national programmes; international co-operation and the harmonisation of inter-state interests in the field of transport; railways, maritime and air transport; transport on inland waterways; the safety of vessels intended for navigation in continental waters; cargo transfer services; roads and road traffic (except the control and regulation of vehicles in road traffic) and cable-cars.
  • Ministry of Communications and Works - Department of Road Transport
  • Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications
    The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications elaborates and implements the state's economic policy and economic development plans in the following fields: industry, trade, energy, housing, building, transport (including transport infrastructure, carriage, transit, logistics and public transport), traffic management (including traffic on railways, highways, streets, waterways and airways), increasing road safety and reducing environmental hazardousness of vehicles; informatics, telecommunications, postal service and tourism; co-ordinating the development of state information systems; research and development and innovation, metrology, standardisation, certification, accreditation, licensing, registers, industrial property protection, competition surveillance, consumer protection, export promotion and trade safeguards; measures regional development and investment, related administration of minimum stocks of liquid fuel and drafting the respective legislation bills.
  • Ministry of Transport and Communications
    The Ministry of Transport and Communications is responsible for transport of people and goods, telecommunication and postal services.
  • Ministry of Transport and Public Works (Ministerio de Fomento)
  • National Roads Authority
    The Authority's primary function, under the Roads Act 1993, is 'to secure the provision of a safe and efficient network of national roads'. For this purpose, it has overall responsibility for planning and supervision of construction and maintenance works on these roads.
  • NCSA - National Center for Statistics and Analysis
    NCSA is responsible for providing a wide range of analytical and statistical support to NHTSA and the highway safety community at large, in the general areas of: Human, vehicle, environmental, and roadway characteristics, as they relate to crash frequency and injuries. Identifying injury mechanisms and associated crash dynamics in motor vehicle crashes. Evaluating the effectiveness of crashworthiness, crashavoidence, and traffic safety efforts etc. To address the many analytic requirements, data are obtained from a variety of sources. The major data sources are NCSA's own Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) and the National Automotive Sampling System (NASS).
  • NHTSA - National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
    NHTSA is responsible for reducing deaths, injuries and economic losses resulting from motor vehicle crashes.This is accomplished by setting and enforcing safety performance standards for motor vehicle equipment, and through grants to state and local governments to enable them to conduct effective local highway safety programs.
  • Norwegian Public Roads Administration
    The Norwegian Public Roads Administration is responsible for the planning, construction and operation of the national and county road networks, vehicle inspection and requirements, driver training and licensing.
  • Politie België
    On this Belgian website you will find, among others, tips about what to do if you have become a victim of a break-in or accident. You will discover practical maps that show where the closest police corps is situated.
  • Politie Nederland
    Politie.nl is the official website of the Netherlands Police.
  • Projects financed by the Commission
  • Raad voor de Transportveiligheid
    The Dutch Transport Safety Board has ceased to exist and has become part of The Dutch Safety Board inJanuary 2005
  • RDW Centrum voor Voertuigtechniek en Informatie
    The RDW Vehicle Technology and Information Centre serves by following the total life span of vehicles and their relevant documents. The RDW, using its main competence, aims at offering extra added social value in the form of concrete products and services for governments and companies.
  • RSA - Road Safety Authority
    The Road Safety Authority (RSA) is tasked with improving safety on our roads in order to reduce death and injury resulting from road collisions. The legal basis for the RSA is set out in the Road Safety Authority Act 2006. The RSA formally came into existence on 1st September 2006.
    An objective of the RSA is to bring Ireland's road safety record into line with "best practice" countries throughout the World.
    The achievement of this objective will involve cooperation with many stakeholders working in the area of road safety, including the Gardai, education sector, health sector, local authorities, National Roads Authority, the media and of course the general public.
  • Satiksmes ministrija
    Ministry of Transport is a leading institution of state administration of transport and communication branches which elaborates legal acts and policy planning documents regulating the branch. It provides the implementation of the transport policy.
  • Transport- og Energiministeriet / Ministry of Transport and Energy
    A modern society cannot function without mobility and access to energy. As individuals we must have the ability to move from one place to another and it must be possible to transport goods between manufacturers and suppliers and out to consumers ­ there must be mobility. Mobility requires energy and access to energy is in itself a necessity for the manufacture of goods, for society and for the welfare of its citizens. The Danish Transport and Energy Ministry works on creating a good framework for transport and access to energy.
  • Trygg Trafikk - The Norwegian Council for Road Safety
    Trygg Trafikk is an umbrella organisation for the voluntary road safety work and serves as a link between voluntary associations and the road safety authorities.
    The organisation shall due to its statutes promote the best possible road safety for all groups of road-users. Trygg Trafikk is given a special responsibility for promoting traffic education in kindergarten and school, and providing information and knowledge about road safety.
  • Vägtrafikinspektionen
    The Road Traffic Inspectorate will safeguard the interests of individuals in a safe road transport system. Its work will be characterised by the humanistic view on which "Vision Zero" is based.
    Safe road traffic is our primary objective and "Vision Zero" is the loadstar that guides our work. If all who are able to influence the situation on our roads had their own "vision zero", great strides could be made in the work on creating safer roads. On this website you can see who we are and read a brief account of our fields of experience.
  • Vägverket - Swedish National Road Administration
    The SNRA is the national authority assigned the overall sectoral responsibility for the entire road transport system. The SNRA is also responsible for drawing up and applying road transport regulations. In addition, the SNRA is responsible for the planning, construction, operation and maintenance of the state roads.
    This sectoral responsibility involves representing the State at a national level in issues relating to the environmental impact of the road transport system, road traffic safety, accessibility, level of service, efficiency and contributions to regional balance, as well as in issues relating to intelligent transport systems, vehicles, public transport, modifications for the disabled, commercial traffic in addition to applied research, development and demonstration activities within the road transport system.
  • Vozimo pametno
    Slovene Road Safety Council
  • Working Party on Accidents and Injuries
    The Working Party on Accidents and Injuries supports public health activities that seek to reduce all accidents and injuries in the European Union. This website is targeted at a broad group of interested parties from injury prevention experts to stakeholders, from politicians to European citizens and is supported by DG Health and Consumer Protection of the European Commission.
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