SUNflowerNext: Towards A Composite Road Safety Performance Index

The aim of the SUNflowerNext project is to develop a knowledge-based framework for comprehensive benchmarking of road safety performances and developments of a country or of sub-national jurisdictions. Benchmarking is a process in which actors evaluate various aspects of their performance in relation to others, and to the so-called 'best in class'. In the SUNflowerNext study the authors researched whether countries in the European Union could all be placed in one class, or whether they should consider working with two or more classes. In the SUNflowerNext project the authors concluded that it is better not to make comparisons between all European countries as one group, but to attempt grouping comparable countries and to then compare the countries within a specific group or class. SUNflowerNext decided to develop an integral and comprehensive set of indicators to measure the road safety performance of a country while including all information in the SUNflower pyramid. Time series analyses and sub-national comparisons are also discussed in the report.