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This report contains information on the good practice database that can be found at the TISPOL website (www.tispol.org). The database provides information on several aspects of road safety more specifically focussed on police and police enforcement. Information is collected from 6 EU Member States with a relatively good policy on road safety and where police forces are known for rather effective and efficient methods to enforce traffic laws in general and more specific the legislation on speeding, seat belt wearing and alcohol. Police specialists and representatives of research institutes in the selected Member States have answered a specific questionnaire and after analysing the answers the representatives of the selected countries are interviewed based don the received answers. A demonstration of good practice related to alcohol speeding and seat belt enforcement is performed and used as input for the database. ETSC is asked to comment a document with relevant issues from an EU perspective to be embedded in the database. After these activities all retrieved information is placed in a database (CLEOPATRA) at the TISPOL website. Over 95% of the content of the database is available at the public part of the TISPOL website. A limited number of sections is only available for TISPOL members. Information in these sections is considered as available for police only.

The project PEPPER (Police Enforcement Policy and Programmes on European Roads) aimed to contribute to the efficiency and effectiveness of traffic law enforcement on EU roads. While the focus of the project was on traffic policing, the whole enforcement chain was examined- from policy choices about the role of police in road safety, through traffic law making, traffic police enforcement practices and the handling of driving offences by the courts. The focus of the project was on the enforcement of speeding, drink-driving and use of seat belts. With regard to these unsafe behaviours, more detailed analyses were made of the planning and implementation of their actual enforcement across member states, the potential of new technologies to support better enforcement and improved compliance, and of the conditions and means to disseminate good practices for effective traffic policing. The availability of enforcement data in Member States was surveyed and suggestions were made concerning uniform, EU-wide enforcement data collection methods and databases. Innovative technologies in Traffic Law Enforcement were described and their potentials assessed, including the applications regarding cross-border enforcement. Good practices were described concerning strategic planning and tactical deployment in traffic law enforcement as well as collection and use of enforcement data for monitoring and evaluation purposes. The knowledge of the effects of enforcement in key areas was updated by applying meta-analysis to previous studies.

The aim of the European project MASTER (MAnaging Speeds of Traffic on European Roads) is to produce information that can be cited in the preparation of national and EU decisions concerning speed management and standards for speed control equipment. For this purpose, the project seeks answers to three key questions:1) What are acceptable ranges of speeds?2) What are the key factors influencing drivers' choice of speed?3) What are the best speed management tools and strategies?Each of three research areas addresses one of these questions. Area 1 is concerned with developing a basis for appraisal of effects of different levels of speed upon accident occurrence, emissions, noise, vehicle operating costs and travel time. Area 2 provides information on factors that influence drivers speed behaviour with respect to present speed levels and speed management methods in Europe, enforcement levels, motivation and acceptability of driving speeds, and road design and subjective road categorisation. Area 3 reviews various tools for speed management, tests the most promising ones and gives recommendations for implementation of Advanced Transport Telematics (ATT) systems. The summary reports from these three work areas provide the main inputs to this paper, which is concerned with making recommendations for speed management strategies and policies. The full results of the project are documented in 26 reports which are listed in the reference section of this paper.