Translation of "Risque d'accident par occupant-kilomètre " (French → English) :

I will say that it will be for you people to make that judgment, because not even Hal and I always agree when we look at it and say, this triples the risk, but the real risk is one accident in 100 million kilometres, instead of one accident in 300 million kilometres those numbers are made up.

There are two different ways of looking at it: the relative risk is tripled, but then there's the absolute risk how many kilometres do you have to drive at 0.04 before you have that accident?

In the near future my services will increase cooperation with the Member States in order to develop an appropriate legislative and/or non-legislative follow-up to the accidents in the areas of land use planning, harmonisation of generic risk assessment methods and risk mapping.

The long term objective of any policy on siting and land use must be to isolate population centres and sensitive environments from possible major accident hazards.

During that period of time the number of straight trucks as well as tractor-trailers involved in collisions declined by over 5 per cent, and the number of those same vehicles involved in fatal collisions during that period dropped by almost 14 per cent. Perhaps most noteworthy is that, during that same period, for-hire trucking tonne-kilometres increased by over 37 per cent. In other words, the exposure during that period was significantly higher, and accident rates, in fact, went down.

But the problems are building up now and the Commission discussion paper makes a series of suggestions that could be introduced at short notice: - adjusting existing Community legislation on road charges of Heavy Goods Vehicles in order to make progress towards fair and efficient pricing. - electronic kilometre charges based on infrastructure damage and possibly other parameters (HGV) - road tolls in urban areas - differentiated fuel taxes reflecting differences in fuel quality -differentiated vehicle taxes linked to a vehicle's environmental/noise characteristics (noisy, polluting vehicle pay more - the consumer can choose to drive a cl ...[+++]eaner, quieter vehicle) - insurance systems that cover all accident costs and link risk and mileage to premiums paid by individual users, - the provision of information on the safety performance of vehicles.