Monitoring road safety attitudes & performance: the ESRA approach – special session at RS5C

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIAL SESSION

This session will provide insights on the ESRA approach of monitoring road safety attitudes and safety performance, on a global level. It especially addresses researchers and policy makers who are interested in using representative online surveys in road safety monitoring. Furthermore, potential partners will have the chance to ask questions on participation in the ESRA network.
ESRA (E-Survey of Road users’ Attitudes) is a global cross-national initiative in currently 38 countries. The aim of the project is to provide scientific support to road safety policy by generating comparable national data on the current road safety situation. Using a uniform sampling method, an identical questionnaire and uniform programming of the questionnaire, allows for full comparability among the countries.
The objective of this session is to provide an overview on the project: motivation, objectives, methodology, and key results. The different speakers will highlight examples of extracting results on regional, national and thematic level:
(1) Uta Meesmann (ESRA coordinator; Vias institute, Belgium): motivation, objectives, methodoloy and recent key results on regional level.
(2) Ward Vanlaar (ESRA2 core group partner; TIRF, Canada): comparison of national- and regional results with respect to mobile phone use (Europe, Canada, and USA).
(3) Sangjin Han (ESRA2 core group partner; KOTI, Republic of Korea): comparison of national results of the Republic of Korea with European results (benchmarking).
(4) Gerald Furian (ESRA1_2 core group partner; KfV, Austria): extracting thematic results from ESRA and combining them with external data sources, here exemplified with CARE accident data.
(5) Uta Meesmann (ESRA coordinator; Vias institute, Belgium): brief overview of the structure of the ESRA network and the possibilities to join this initiative (next wave ESRA2 - 2019).

The session will close with a discussion on using representative online survey in monitoring road safety attitudes and performance. Furthermore, potential new partners will have the chance to ask questions on joining this network