The UNECE pioneered road safety activities in the United Nations system with the establishment of an Ad Hoc Working Group on the prevention of road accidents in 1950. In 1988, the Working Party on Road Traffic Safety (WP.1), an intergovernmental body, was established.
Today, WP.1 remains the only permanent body in the United Nations system that focuses on improving road safety (see road safety film). Its primary function is to serve as guardian of the United Nations legal instruments aimed at harmonizing traffic rules. More...
Meetings and Events
News
14 March 2013
The programme of the second UN Global Road Safety Week is now available.
25 January 2013
Turkey accedes to the Convention on Road Traffic, of 8 November 1968, and the European Agreement supplementing the 1968 Convention on Road Traffic, of 1 May 1971
27 April 2012
The General Assembly Resolution on Improving global road safety (A/66/L.43) is now available, in 6 languages.
17 April 2012
New publication presenting the spectrum of Road Safety activities
Latest Documents
Regional Perspectives Drinking Driving agenda
2nd Global Road Safety Week
ILCAD Programme
International Level Crossing Awareness Day - Agenda
Insurance Road Safety agenda
2nd Global Road Safety Week
Brochure
Global Road Saftey Week 2013: Regional perspectives on preventing alcohol - related road crashes involving vulnerable road users.
