ROAD SAFETY AND SUSTAINABLE URBAN MOBILITY

Road safety is regarded as a subsystem of the transport system, although in practice it is also frequently considered a characteristic of the overall condition and performance of the transport system. Road safety is monitored and guided through documents adopted at the international level, at national level, and at the level of local communities. The most important strategic documents at national and local levels are road safety strategies. Sustainable urban mobility aims to ensure that the transport needs of users, namely residents and visitors in urban areas, are met to the greatest possible extent, while also enabling less mobile road users to travel. At the same time, transport should be organised in a sustainable manner in terms of energy consumption, land use, environmental criteria, and the level of safety provided to road users. The most important documents concerning sustainable urban mobility at the urban-area level are Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans. This paper analyses the relationship between road safety and sustainable urban mobility from the perspective of the influence of these subsystems within the transport system, the content of each of the areas under consideration, and the links between the documents relating to these two fields, namely road safety strategies and sustainable urban mobility plans. Particular attention is given to areas addressed both within road safety and sustainable urban mobility, including transport-related environmental impacts, the treatment of vulnerable road users, the role of public passenger transport, parking capacity management, traffic management, and road safety management.