European CommissionFeb 20

A single road death is one too many.

In 2024, 19,940 people lost their lives in road crashes in the EU, a 12% drop compared to 2019.

Progress is real but not enough.

To meet our goal of halving road deaths and serious injuries by 2030 and Vision Zero by 2050, we must accelerate our efforts.

We will focus on safer infrastructure, stronger enforcement, vehicle technologies, new mobility, and road safety research.

Safer roads are not optional. They are essential.

More: https://link.europa.eu/NBYq9h

Show threadDer DingsFeb 20
@EUCommission Well, you wouldn‘t need additional research if you’d finally enforce a speed limit in whole Europe including Germany.
Show threadTuukka RFeb 20

@aus_der_UBahn @EUCommission

I have heard there are occasionally traffic deaths outside Germany as well. Are you sure speed limits in Germany would decrease their number? Why?

Show threadDer DingsFeb 20
@Tuuktuuk @EUCommission You know what I mean, sorry for the wrong expression. But: I‘m shure there are loads of studies and research in all of the EU countries, and it‘s not a question of knowledge to reduce traffic deaths, but of political will. We have several studies here that found out that it‘s important to lower speed from 50 to 30 in cities, that should be valid everywhere.
Show threadWsmyrFeb 20
@aus_der_UBahn @Tuuktuuk @EUCommission I believe lowering speed limits has - beyond lowering road deaths - other consequences. Time spent on roads is an economic factor. That’s why it is indeed a political issue, not a knowledge issue.
Show threadTuukka RFeb 20

@wsmyr @aus_der_UBahn @EUCommission

That time difference is negligible. You spend so much time in traffic lights and such, that the average door-to-door speed remains almost unchanged even if you change the urban speed limit from 50 km/h to 30 km/h.

Show threadTuukka R

@wsmyr @aus_der_UBahn @EUCommission

Also, where there are no traffic lights a road has highest throughput at a speed of 50 km/h. Higher than that, and the distance between two cars grows so large that you lose more throughput capacity to that than you win with a higher speed.

On a road prone to jams, 50 km/h can flow just fine while 80 km/h triggers a traffic jam, slowing everything to 30 km/h!

Feb 20 at 3:43pmWeb