Ratings as monitoring tools
Vehicle and road network safety ratings provide a policy tool for monitoring the safety quality of the vehicle fleet and the road network and any interventions adopted in the national road safety strategy.
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Examples of performance indicators from safety rating systems in use or under development in Sweden (SRA 2006)
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- Percentage of vehicle mileage on roads that fulfil EuroRAP four stars (rural areas)
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- Percentage of vehicle mileage with vehicles that fulfil EuroNCAP five stars (newly registered)
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- Percentage of vehicle mileage with vehicles that fulfil EuroNCAP five stars (existing vehicle fleet)
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EuroRAP, for example, provides an opportunity to produce a regular measure of safety performance on a consistent basis which shows in detail how risk is changing in different parts of the road network in different countries, and also shows the potential for improvement in a way that can be linked to specific programmes. It also shows how infrastructure improvements in each country could contribute to the EU target for casualty reduction [20].
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