New Scenarios for Safe Mobility in Urban Areas

Abstract

Since the mid-twentieth century, the International scientific community has highlighted the serious problem of road accidents. That problem became critical since the 1960s due to the exponential increase of motorization in those years. Anyway, it was only at the end of the last century that the problem was addressed in a comprehensive and systematic way. Consequently, some effective measures have been implemented, and the first positive results were found. Nevertheless, in Europe, few countries have achieved the objectives given by the EU policies for the last three decades. For example, Italy has failed to reach the goal of halving the road victims in the decades 2001-2010 and 20112020.