EU Road Safety Cluster paper published
V4SAFETY contributes to new EU Road Safety Cluster paper on road safety data
The EU Road Safety Cluster has published a joint paper titled Advancing Road Safety Through Data: Challenges, Solutions, and Policy Insights from EU Road Safety Projects. The paper brings together insights from eleven EU-funded research and innovation projects and addresses a central question for road safety policy and practice: how to move from fragmented data to integrated, actionable and governance-ready road safety information.
The initiative was launched by the PHOEBE project and developed collaboratively within the EU Road Safety Cluster. On behalf of the V4SAFETY project, Olaf op den Camp (TNO) and Sanne van Gils (SWOV) contributed as co-authors.
The paper analyses key challenges related to road safety data collection, management and use, including data quality, interoperability, governance and accessibility. It also presents practical solutions and case-based insights from Horizon Europe projects working on topics such as automated mobility, vulnerable road users and predictive safety approaches. Based on these experiences, the paper formulates policy recommendations to support more effective, data-driven road safety decision-making at European level.
The joint paper is publicly available and can be downloaded via the V4SAFETY project website.
V4SAFETY will be represented at the Road Transport Research (RTR) Conference 2026 in Brussels. Sytze Kalisvaart (project coordinator | TNO) will present and mention the project’s contribution to the joint paper on 10 February.
