ESRA (E-Survey of Road Users’ Attitudes) is a rapidly growing initiative of research organizations and road safety institutes from all over the word. This joint initiative aims at collecting comparable data on behaviour and attitudes of road users by means of an online panel (questionnaire) survey (Meesmann et al., 2022). The initiative is coordinated by Vias institute together with 10 Steering group members (BASt (Germany), DTU (Denmark), IATSS (Japan), ITS (Poland), KFV (Austria), NTUA (Greece), PRP (Portugal), SWOV (Netherlands), TIRF (Canada) and University of G. Eiffel (France)). The initiative is financed by partners’ own resources or sponsors. In total the ESRA survey was already conducted in more than 60 countries across the world.

The initiative started in Europe in 2015 (ESRA1), and rapidly grew to a global project. A second edition followed between 2018 and 2020. In spring 2023, the third edition of ESRA was implemented in 39 countries and the related results will be available this summer. The ESRA survey addresses different road safety topics (e.g., speeding, distraction, driving under the influence of alcohol, not using seatbelt) and the themes covered in the survey include amongst others self-declared unsafe behaviour, attitudes and opinions on unsafe traffic behaviour and safety perception and support for road safety measures. The survey targets car occupants, moped riders and motorcyclists, cyclists, and pedestrians. New in the most recent edition is that questions on vulnerable road users were expanded and new questions for riders of e-scooters and on infrastructure were added. In Europe, 23 countries participate in ESRA3. The proposed presentation will present the ESRA initiative and show first results of the most recent edition (ESRA3).
This presentation will be the kick-off of a series dissemination activities in 2024 and 2025. Within the upcoming months, the ESRA consortium will update results of the previous edition and show evolutions of key results over time. Key results of the second edition (ESRA2) were published through a series of reports (i.e., final report, methodology report, 15 thematic reports on road safety topics, 48 country fact sheets), they were used for scientific articles, conference contributions, national reports, or other projects (e.g., Baseline KPI alcohol). ESRA2 output can be freely consulted and downloaded at the ESRA website (www.esranet.eu). Key results of the previous edition are also presented in the form of a dashboard, which will be updated in 2024.

Keywords: road safety, monitoring, international, attitude, behaviour

Vias institute - Brussels - Brussels - Belgium Gerald Furian