The ITF-FIA cooperation project on road safety performance in Latin America held its second workshop on the benchmark of road safety performance in Latin American countries in the framework of the Road Safety in Five Continents Conference, organised jointly by the Swedish Transport Research Institute (VTI) and the Brazilian Transport Association from 16 to 20 May 2016 in Rio de Janeiro
In 2014, the International Transport Forum (ITF) and the FIA signed a 3-year cooperation agreement focusing on the improvement of worldwide traffic crash data collection and analysis. As part of this cooperation agreement, a project benchmarking road safety performance in Latin American countries was selected for implementation.
The objective of this project started in 2015, is to offer policy makers in Latin America a tool to assess the weaknesses and strengths of each country in the field of road safety and identify areas deserving policy attention and where the experience of other countries may be applied.
Ten countries have agreed to take part in the project: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, and Uruguay.