Road safety plan

A road safety plan is part of the transportation plan, and its role is to:

• Increase road safety in Iceland

• reducing road accidents

• improving traffic culture

The Road Safety Plan is a strategic plan and is set for fifteen years. This strategy includes numerical objectives as well as road safety policy and priorities.

Action plan

A description of the projects that will be implemented to achieve the objectives of the action plan is to be found. An action plan is set for five years, with an existing action plan in force from 2020-2024.

Reduction of accidents

The objectives of reducing casualties are two:

• That Iceland will be among the five best European countries in terms of the number of traffic deaths per 100,000 inhabitants.

  • In order to support this objective, 11 sub-objectives are set, each sub-objective being defined as a reduction of the number of sub-objectives.

    • a certain type of accident

    • accidents among a certain group

supporting it in this way for the second objective, which is:

• the number of deaths and serious injuries generally declines by 5% a year until 2034.

Better behavioural targets

Traffic behaviour improvement targets are set for the first time in the current programme. Improved behaviour in traffic

• improves traffic culture

• reduce accidents

Laws and rules

The current road safety plan is from 2020-2034 and more can be read about the goals in .