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Road safety research studies on the French territory or carried out by French research institutes are visible here.

Since 1910, the field of accidentology has been involved and associated with trauma. It was not until 1968 that the term "accidentology" entered the vocabulary. Public research gets organised as well as the private sector (manufacturers and insurers). Then appear the key concepts and objects of research : "infrastructures", "behaviours" and "vehicles".

This science integrates domains relating to techniques and technologies (automotive, control), engineering (roads, kinetics, detection), health sciences (including neuro-sciences) and clinical pharmacology. Its interdisciplinarity also extends to the fields of economic and human sciences, with preventive and educational content updated on a continuous basis in line with the improvement of knowledge.

The interdisciplinarity of road safety requires that research and study organisations work together.

Ifsttar and Cerema are the main actors of the scientific and technical network, as well as Inserr, CNRS laboratories, Inserm, ISPED and university teams. UTAC is approved to carry out homologation tests on vehicles and their equipment. Research and Development (carmakers, equipment manufacturers) is present in particular through the LAB and Ceesar. A public-private partnership is created with the Road Safety Foundation. Incentive to the Research also comes from calls for projects from the ANR (National Research Agency), foundations such as MAIF, VINCI, and in 2017 from the Road Safety Directorate.

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Local Road Safety analyses

The typology of accidents is specific to each territory. The particularities of injury accidents...

Road environment

Moving quickly and safely depends on the adequacy of transport infrastructure to users travel...

Vehicles

The combined growth of motorization and especially multi-motorization is driving a strong growth in...

Behaviour risk factors

Road traffic accidents are the consequence of a malfunction of the environment-vehicle-user system....

Evaluation

Public policy evaluation aims to produce knowledge about a policy. It generally concerns a...

Victims

According to the 2007 decree governing the establishment of the national road traffic injury...

Mobility modes

To study accidentality on French roads, understanding road user mobility is essential.

Marked...

User behaviour in traffic

Monitoring behaviour to anticipate trends ? Tracking traffic behaviour allows for a quicker...

Road safety worldwide

Every year, road accidents cause 1.35 million deaths worldwide, or 3,500 deaths per day, including...