Over the past three decades, the Road Directors have devoted a considerable amount of their collaborative activities to the challenges of road safety. This has included outputs from CEDR working groups, research programmes [1] and other projects.
CEDR Reports are endorsed by the Road Directors of the CEDR membership, Contractor reports represent the views of the contractors. Both are presented here for information.
Strategy and Vision Zero
CEDR updated position paper on road safety entitled ‘’Main Road Safety challenges for European Road Directors the next 5-10 years – towards the Vision Zero’’ (2021)
Most Effective Short-, Medium- and Long-Term Measures to Improve Safety on European Roads (2006, EN+FR)
Infrastructure and networks
Shoulder and median rumble strips (2010, FR)
Road Lighting & Safety (2010, FR)
Forgiving roadsides design guide (2013, FR)
Provision of Guidelines for Roadside Safety (PROGReSS) – Roadside safety elements (2019)
Safety at the Heart of Road Design (2013)
European Sight Distances in perspective – EUSight (2016)
Traffic
Safe distance between vehicles (2010, FR)
Hard Shoulder Running - Fact Sheet (2018)
Road works
ASAP and BRoWSER Projects (2016)
IRIS - Incursion Reduction to Increase Safety in road work zones (2019)
Incident management and safety at road work locations (2023)
Incident management and detection
Best practice in European traffic incident management (2012, FR)
SHADAR - Stopped vehicle Hazards – Avoidance, Detection, And Response (2023)
Financing
Best practice for cost-effective road safety infrastructure investments (2008, FR)
Winter maintenance
