Towards a European Key Performance Indicator for Safe Urban Roads: Lessons From the Trendline Project

Wendy Weijermars; Elisabete Rodrigues; Johannes Mesimäki; Simon Sternlund; Maria Georgieva; Jan Hendrik van Petegem; Teun Uijtdewilligen; Augusto Torbay; Ana Amaro; Ana Vidigal; Fernando Rosa; Wouter Van den Berghe

doi:10.55329/yxna7190

Towards a European Key Performance Indicator for Safe Urban Roads: Lessons From the Trendline Project

Wendy Weijermars^*
, Elisabete Rodrigues
, Johannes Mesimäki
, Simon Sternlund
, Maria Georgieva
, Jan Hendrik van Petegem
, Teun Uijtdewilligen
, Augusto Torbay
, Ana Amaro
, Ana Vidigal
, Fernando Rosa
, Wouter Van den Berghe

^*Corresponding author for this work

BA4904 Transport systems and services

Institute for Road Safety Research (SWOV)
Autoridade Nacional de Segurança Rodoviária (ANSR)
Trafikverket, Sweden
State Agency Road Safety
Municipality of Lisbon
Tilkon Research & Consulting

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Abstract

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are an important instrument for road safety policy making. This paper presents a KPI for safe urban roads that was developed and tested in the European Trendline project. Based on discussions with 18 experts from 8 countries, it was decided to start with the basic indicator ‘Share of 30 km/h road length of the total length of urban roads’ which was tested in five pilot countries using available local, national and international (GIS) databases. The share of 30 km/h roads appeared to differ considerably between the pilot countries, ranging from less than 1% in the city of Silistra in Bulgaria to 73% in the Netherlands. The pilots showed that it is possible to calculate the KPI, although it is important to check the quality of the speed limit data and there will be some differences in selections due to data availability and local context. Also the use of additional indicators related to the concept of safe speeds was explored in the pilots. The calculation of these indicators appeared to be more challenging and further research is recommended to further develop these additional KPIs.

Original language	English
Article number	e000099
Journal	Traffic Safety Research
Volume	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.55329/yxna7190
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2025
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Funding

This research was part of the Trendline project, which is funded by the European Union under grant agreement No. MOVE/C2/SUB/2022-54/CEF/TA/SI2.892654.

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

Keywords

30km/h
cyclist safety
KPI
safe speed
SPI

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Weijermars, W., Rodrigues, E., Mesimäki, J., Sternlund, S., Georgieva, M., van Petegem, J. H., Uijtdewilligen, T., Torbay, A., Amaro, A., Vidigal, A., Rosa, F., & Van den Berghe, W. (2025). Towards a European Key Performance Indicator for Safe Urban Roads: Lessons From the Trendline Project. Traffic Safety Research, 9, Article e000099. https://doi.org/10.55329/yxna7190

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