Report No. 78319-pl country Report on Poland Road Safety Management Capacity Review June, 2013

Currency Equivalents 6

Abbreviations 6

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 7

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 8

OVERVIEW 14

1INTRODUCTION 15

1.1Poland’s Transport and Health Policy Context 15

1.2The Global Road Safety Situation 16

1.3The Safe System Approach 17

1.4The EU context 17

2REVIEW DESCRIPTION 24

2.1Aims of the Review 24

2.2Background to Review 25

2.3Review Methodology and Timetable 25

3ROAD SAFETY SITUATION AND INSTITUTIONS IN POLAND 28

3.1Background and National Situation 28

3.2Institutional context: current road safety management systems and institutions at the national level 28

3.3Road safety organization in self-government and linkages to national administration 29

3.4Non-governmental road safety organizations 32

3.5Trends in road traffic fatalities and injuries at national level 32

3.6Casualties by road user group: vehicle occupants, motorcyclists, bicyclists, pedestrians. 34

3.7Road safety risk factors 35

3.8Road safety performance and self-government: Crashes across Voivodships 39

3.9Summary of key fatal and injury crash factors in Poland. 40

4KEY REVIEW FINDINGS ON ROAD SAFETY MANAGEMENT CAPACITY 41

4.1Creating an evidence-based approach 41

4.2Road safety management capacity and organization of road safety activity 42

4.2.1 Capacity for institutional management functions 42

4.2.2 Capacity for interventions 47

4.2.3 Capacity for results 48

4.2.4 Summary 48

4.2.5 Detailed findings 49

5RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IMPROVEMENTS TO CAPACITY FOR INSTITUTIONAL MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONS 62

5.1Results focus 62

5.1.1Political leadership 62

5.1.2Lead Agency responsibilities 63

5.1.3Creating national results focus 65

5.2Coordination and Promotion 67

5.2.1Partner agencies in national government 67

5.2.2National/self-government linkages and cooperation 68

5.2.3Other Stakeholders in road safety 69

5.3Legislation 70

5.4Funding and resource allocation 70

5.5Monitoring, evaluation and research 72

6RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IMPROVEMENTS TO CAPACITY FOR INTERVENTIONS 74

6.1Road network 74

6.2 Speed management 75

6.3Road users 76

6.4Vehicles 77

6.5Emergency services and Post-crash care 78

7RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IMPROVEMENTS TO CAPACITY FOR RESULTS 79

7.1Final outcome data 79

7.2Intermediate outcome data 79

7.3Output data 80

8SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 81

REFERENCES 87