Divera Twisk 31 October SWOV Enforcement in (near) future- issues to be addressed ESCAPE symposium

Divera Twisk 2 December ESCAPE Content  Short overview recommendations  Lessons from Escape on enforcement  Speed  Alcohol  Safety belts  Conclusions

Divera Twisk 2 December ESCAPE EU recommendations  Target 50% less fatalities by 2010  Enforcement target: 25% reduction ( fatalities)  Safety level within EU 1:3 (Short-term police enforcement/long term infrastructure)  Reasoning: it is not the national laws/rules that make the difference but the level of enforcement  Proposed measures based on experiences in SUN countries

Divera Twisk 2 December ESCAPE Proposed measures (C/B)  Drink driving 3.8 – 8 : 1  Speed : 1  Seatbelt : 1

Divera Twisk 2 December ESCAPE ESCAPE and EU recommendations

Divera Twisk 2 December ESCAPE ESCAPE Issues in alcohol enforcement  How to target the heavy drinker (Also in SUN still a major problem)  What alternatives are there for financial punishments: how effective?  When to use an alcohol interlock and/or rehabilitation programs (ANDREA)  How to communicate (especially new member states)

Divera Twisk 2 December ESCAPE ESCAPE Issues in speed enforcement  Despite high police enforcement  Massive % of speed violations  Compliance only at police controlled locations  Speed violations are socially accepted  Small violations are subject of public/political debate  To hard to communicate in publicity campaigns

Divera Twisk 2 December ESCAPE

Divera Twisk 2 December ESCAPE How to approach this:  Embed enforcement in speed management approach  Promote credibility  Speed limits  Fixed speed limits: while safe speed are context related develop Flexible contextual speed limits  Communicate on speed issues, address:  Individual drivers are inadequate in (collective) risk assessment  minor violations or on the serious ones (not only on black spots)  in-line with alcohol random testing: what about random speed checks

Divera Twisk 2 December ESCAPE Issues in safety belt non-use  Low priority in police work  Technical solution as effective  Combine with child restraints campaign

Divera Twisk 2 December ESCAPE How to organize monitoring  Use performance indicators (e.g % of drink- drivers): not police hours  Set targets in terms of performance indicators  Evaluate + demonstrate effects (research!)

Divera Twisk 2 December ESCAPE Conclusion  Near future  Communicate  Legitimize effort  To increase public support  Embed enforcement in speed management e.g  Credibility of speed limits  Road design  Far future  An open eye for technology push