UNECE - Transport - Road Safety Forum

The road safety work in the UNECE started with the establishment, in March 1950, of the “Ad Hoc Working Group on the prevention of road accidents”. The work has been carried out subsequently by the “Group of Experts on Road Traffic Safety (GE.20)” and since 1988 by the Working Party on Road Traffic Safety (WP.1).

Within the general mandate of the United Nations, WP.1 initiates and pursues actions aimed at reinforcing and improving road safety, developing and harmonizing traffic regulations and rules for road signs and signals while also taking account notably of the environment, and strengthening relations between countries. More...

Latest Road Saftey Forum News

24 April 2009
UNECE and the European Baskeball Family join forces to promote road safety at EuroBasket 2009

Meetings

22-24 Mars 2010
59th session of the Working Party on Road Traffic Safety (WP.1)

Recent Events

23 September 2009
Roundtable: "Are we victims of development success?"

25-26 June 2009
Conference on Improving Road Traffic Safety in South-Eastern Europe - Setting Regional and National Road Traffic Casualty Reduction Targets, Halkida, Greece

Road Safety Forum Brochures and Publications

Convention on Road Signs and Signals of 1968, European Agreement Supplementing the Convention and Protocol on
Road Markings Additional to the European Agreement (2006 consolidated versions)

Improving Global Road Safety - Setting Regional and National Road Traffic Casualty Reduction Targets (pdf)

Main Transport Indicators in the UNECE Region 2007

Questionnaires

Forms and replies to questionnaires on road traffic safety issues

Last added documents

28 January 2010
ECE/TRANS/WP.1/2010/1 to 6 - Working documents for the 59th session (22 - 24 March 2010)

6 January 2010
ECE/TRANS/WP.1/126 - Provisional Agenda for the 59th session (22-24 March 2010)

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