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Background

In 1988, the OECD Road Transport Research Programme established the International Road Traffic and Accident Database (IRTAD) as a mechanism for providing an aggregated database, in which international accident and victim as well as exposure data are collected on a continuous basis.

What is IRTAD ?

IRTAD includes both a database and a working group.

The IRTAD database includes accident and traffic data and other safety indicators for 29 countries.

The International Traffic Safety Data and Analysis Group (known as the IRTAD Group) is an on-going working group of the Joint Transport Research of the OECD and the International Transport Forum. It is composed of road safety experts and statisticians from renowned safety research institutes, national road and transport administrations, international organisations, universities, automobilists associations, motorcar industry, etc. Its main objectives are to contribute to international co-operation on road accident data and its analysis.

The ambition of IRTAD is to include as many countries as possible and to build and maintain a high quality database on road safety information.

IRTAD 2010 annual report: This report provides an overview of safety trends for the year 2009 as well as preliminary trends for the year 2010 in IRTAD countries. It focuses on country performance and road safety measures implemented over the past five years to reduce the number of traffic casualties. Download here

IRTAD special reports

• Underreporting of Road Traffic Casualties, Harry M. DERRIKS and Peter M. MAK, Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management, Netherlands, June 2007
• The availability of hospitalised road users data in OECD countries (2003)
• Definitions and data availability (1998)
• The availability of seat belt wearing data in OECD Member countries (1997)

For more information : http://www.irtad.net