ISSUE No. 03 SEPTEMBER 2011
SOL - SAVE OUR LIVES. A COMPREHENSIVE ROAD SAFETY STRATEGY FOR CENTRAL EUROPE
THE SOL eMAGAZINE The SOL eMAGAZINE is produced by the SOL consortium. All articles are written by the SOL partners. The responsibility for all content and statements made lies with the authors. The eMagazine does not represent the opinion of the European Communities. The project „SOL – Save our Lives“ in the Central Europe Program www.central2013.eu is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
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THE T R A N S N AT I O N A L R OA D S A F E TY ASSESSMENT OF TH E S O L P I L OT C O M M U N I T I E S
DEAR READERS
The aim of the SOL situational assessment car-
present the data needed to assess the road
Welcome to the third issue of the SOL project
ried out within the project was to compile and
safety situation in the SOL pilot communities.
eMagazine. During the first year of the project
The SOL pilot communities are:
to collect information on the range of diffe-
• Styria / Austria
rent issues which are necessary to help each
• Liberec / Czech Republic
community understand the full scale of its
With these data we would like to inform about the
• Györ / Hungary
road safety situation.
development of the local road safety strategy and
• East Lombardy, Brescia and Mantova / Italy
The assessment led to the identification of
to identify the main issues; to ensure that the local
• Warmia and Mazury / Poland
priority issues for actions and serves as a
Action Plans will be targeted and achievable and fi-
• Žilina, Prešov / Slovakia
baseline for monitoring and evaluating the
nally become the baseline for future monitoring and
• Maribor, Tolmin, Kočevje / Slovenia
impact of the SOL project and the SOL inter-
assessment of the interventions in the community.
Four parts compose the assessment: road
ventions in the communities.
In the current issue of the eMagazine, you can also
safety assessment, institutional capacity
The situational assessment will be an aid in
learn more about our Czech partner, HBH Projekt,
assessment, stakeholder analysis, public
developing or strengthening the community’s
an engineering company with broad range of expe-
knowledge and opinion survey. The SOL si-
strategic approach to road safety and the
rience in development of transport infrastructure,
tuational assessment was carried out with
management of plans and strategies focused
and the Pilot Area of Liberec, located in the north of
the use of the web application, which can
on achieving the results.
the Czech Republic on the border to Germany and
be found under the address: www.its.waw.
Find more informations here:
Poland.
pl/sol. The toolkit placed on the website in-
http://www.sol-project.eu/docs/file/sol_
Enjoy reading
cludes 4 separate “tools” developed in order
transnational_local_assessment_report.pdf
Alberto Milotti Project Manager SOL
all project partners carried on a transnational road safety assessment.