Approximately 60 percent of all road miles in the U.S.

are non-Interstate, rural roads

owned and operated by local entities, such as towns, counties, and tribal
governments. In 2009, 56 percent of highway deaths occurred on rural roads and the
fatality rate was 2.6 times higher in rural areas than in urban areas. These data
underscore the need to systematically improve road safety in rural areas.

All States have a comprehensive safety plan that provides a framework for reducing
highway fatalities and serious injuries on public roads. This Strategic Highway Safety
Plan (SHSP) is a data-driven plan that establishes state wide goals, objectives, and
key emphasis areas that integrates the 4 E’s of Safety – engineering, education,
enforcement and emergency services. The SHSP can assist local practitioners in
addressing safety on local rural roads but a locally-focused plan is often needed to
address the unique conditions that contribute to safety problems and to assist local
practitioners in making informed safety investment decisions. These challenges
faced by local agencies can be addressed through the creation of a Local Road
Safety Plan (LRSP).

Local practitioners play a critical role in addressing crash risks at the local level; an
LRSP provides the framework for local practitioners to take a proactive stance to
identify the specific or unique conditions that contribute to crashes within their
jurisdictions.

Addressing safety on rural roads can be challenging. The development of an LRSP

can serve as a cornerstone to building a comprehensive safety program to address
the safety challenges on the roadways. Depending on safety needs of the
jurisdiction, the LRSP will vary in size and level of detail. This guide provides the
tools necessary to start a LRSP. It provides information to local practitioners about
identifying stakeholders and partnerships needed to build support, tools to analyze
data, and resources to identify safety issues and select safety strategies.
Worksheets and other sample materials have been provided to aid in the LRSP
process.

Situation

The analysis of accident statistics and their corresponding trends remains one of the central
elements in the development of the new Road Safety Programme. Along with the analysis of
behavioural data as well as legal institutional requirements, this forms the basis for the
catalogue of measures contained in the action plan. The base for the analysis is the data
publishes by the Kosovo Police for 2010.

The situation in road traffic in the recorded time from 2002 to 2010 shows a significant
increase in accident and number of injured people. The number of persons killed in a road
accident alternates on a high level in the last 7 years.

Remarkable is the high percentage of victims under the pedestrian and here the high
percentage of injured or killed children and young people. Both figures are far away from
European benchmarks.
Unfortunately only very general accident data are available and there is no information
about more detailed data like accident with elderly people, accident in or outside the
villages etc. Therefore an annex was added to the document, giving check-list for the
minimum required road accident data to be elaborated as soon as possible.

According to the most frequently used road safety indicators the number of persons killed in
relation to 1 million inhabitants is 101 and in relation to 1 million vehicles it is 500. For the
last indicator it must be considered the recorded number of vehicles varies very much and
that there is no official statistic covering all vehicles running with licence plates, issued in
Kosovo.

priority

The action plan contains concrete measures that must be transformed into actions. The
measures cover the full area of road safety, such as human behaviour, enforcement,
infrastructure- and vehicle- safety and post accident care. All measures should take into
account the specific situation in Kosovo and consider best practices from other countries.
The action plan includes priority ranking and cost estimation for each individual action and
determines which organisations are involved and which organisation has the lead in the
implementing process.

The action plan consists of 12 priority areas witch overall 130 concrete road safety
measures.

The priority areas are the following:

 Traffic education and campaigns

 Driver education, training and licensing
 Enforcement
 Children and young road user
 Elderly road user
 Pedestrians
 Bicycle, Mopeds and Motorbikes
 Lorries and busses
 Railway level crossings
 Post accident care
 Infrastructure
 Vehicle safety

The action plan is primarily outlined for a time-frame until 2015.

Setting objectives and targets: