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The Commission adopted an ambitious Road Safety Program which aims to reduce road deaths in Europe between 2011 and 2020. The program provides a set of initiatives at European and national level, focusing on improving safety vehicles, infrastructure safety and behavior road users.
Road safety is a major societal issue In 2011, more than 30,000 people died on the roads of the European Union, ith the equivalent of a medium town.
For every death on the roads of Europe there are about 4 permanently disabling injuries such as damage to the brain or spinal cord, 8 seriously injured and 50 slightly injured.
The Atlas provides road safety accident statistics for each European country using interactive maps and satellite images has been developed to raise awareness of road safety policy of Europe Atlas is available for all desktop platforms, laptop, tablet and smartphone the information published in the Atlas of CARE, the database of road accidents in the European Union.
Road accidents in the European Union using a GIS geographic information system.
Is available to describe the layout and content of the following thematic maps A guide to using the card 857 kB.
CARE is a Community database on road accidents resulting in death or injury no statistics on damage - only accidents The main difference between CARE and most other existing international databases is the high level of disaggregation eg CARE includes detailed data on individual accidents collected by the Member States this structure allows for maximum flexibility and potential with regard to analyzing the information contained in the system and opens a whole new possibilities in the field of accident analysis.
The goal of the CARE system is to provide a powerful tool that can identify and quantify road safety problems throughout the European roads, to assess the effectiveness of road safety measures, to determine the relevance of Community actions and facilitate the exchange of experiences in this field.
The Council decided November 30, 1993, the creation of a Community database on road accidents of the decision 93 704 EC OJ L329 of 30 December 1993, pp 63-65.
This database at Community level CARE - Community database on accidents on the roads in Europe would identify and quantify road safety problems, to evaluate the effectiveness of road safety measures, to determine the relevance Community actions and facilitate the exchange of experiences in this field.
National data sets should be integrated into the CARE database in their original national structure and definitions of confidential data strikethrough The Commission provides transformation rules framework to provide compatible CARE data.
A glossary defines variables 2MB countries and transformation rules.
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