Making Roads Safe:
International Conference on Road Infrastructure Safety

4th July 2008, European Bank for Reconstruction & Development

Safer road infrastructure is a key element of effective strategies to reduce the rising trend of road fatalities in developing countries. Identifying road design flaws through systematic assessment and then improving safety features through mass action programmes can be one of the most rapid and cost effective ways to reduce road casualties.

In the run up to the first UN Ministerial Conference on global road safety, the EBRD, the World Bank Global Road Safety Facility, the Commission for Global Road Safety and the FIA Foundation are together organising the ‘Making Roads Safe’ conference to encourage a consensus around common systems of road infrastructure safety design, rating and assessment. Participants to the conference will include leading officials of regional development banks; donor governments; ministers, officials and road directors from developing country governments; UN agencies; NGOs, road engineers; development and road safety experts.

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Lord Robertson of Port Ellen, Chairman, Commission for Global Road Safety

“We can save millions of lives in the decades ahead by implementing policies and solutions that are proven to work and make roads safer”.

Jean Lemierre, President, EBRD

“It is hoped that a common set of guidelines for road infrastructure safety could be applied by all the major multilateral banks and bilateral donors”.

David Ward, Director General, FIA Foundation, and Chairman, World Bank Global Road Safety Facility

“Safer road design and assessment can make a significant contribution to reducing the growing health losses caused by road crashes”.