Improving Global Road Safety

Urges Member States and relevant actors to accelerate and scale up efforts to implement the Global Plan for the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021–2030, making road safety a political priority and ensuring its relevance in the broader sustainable development agenda;

Encourages Member States to establish mechanisms for interministerial coordination, notably among the health, transport, education, infrastructure, interior and environment ministries, in order to address cross-cutting issues that have an impact on all the sectors involved in matters addressing road safety;

Also encourages Member States to take steps to ensure that safety features are built in at the stages of design, manufacture, usage, operation and maintenance of both motorized and non-motorized vehicles in line with international standards and practices in order to minimize adverse safety and environmental effects of vehicle operation on road users, including pedestrians and bicyclists, and infrastructure;

Calls upon Member States to implement a safe system approach through policies that foster safe urban and rural road infrastructure design and engineering; set safe adequate speed limits supported by appropriate speed management measures; enable multimodal transport and active mobility; establish, where possible, an optimal mix of motorized and non-motorized transport, with particular emphasis on public transport, walking and cycling, including bike-sharing services, safe pedestrian infrastructure and level crossings, especially in urban areas;

Invites Member States and relevant stakeholders to leverage the recently proclaimed United Nations Decade of Sustainable Transport that will begin in 2026 as an opportunity to embed road safety as an integral part of the agenda for sustainable transport, especially beyond the current Sustainable Development Goals deadline of 2030;

Invites Member States that have not already done so to consider adopting comprehensive legislation on key risk factors, including the non-use of seat belts, child restraints and helmets, the drinking of alcohol and driving, and speeding, and to consider implementing appropriate, effective and evidence- and/or science-based legislation on other risk factors related to distracted or impaired driving;

Encourages Member States that have not yet done so to consider becoming contracting parties to the United Nations legal instruments on road safety and, beyond accession, applying, implementing and promoting their provisions or safety regulations;

Invites Member States and relevant stakeholders, in particular civil society, to engage with local governments and authorities to implement context-specific interventions and prevention strategies that include massive awareness campaigns on road safety, safe habits and behaviours, aimed at all road stakeholders, that respond to the road safety needs and challenges of communities;

Encourages businesses and industries to monitor and report on the road safety impact, or footprint, of operations throughout their value chain;

Calls upon international bodies to develop guidelines for impact investments for road safety as a means of stimulating large-scale financing for road safety, in particular among private investors and donors;

Encourages Member States and relevant stakeholders to support the United Nations Road Safety Fund, for which a pledging conference will be held alongside the Fourth Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety, in 2025, and the replenishment, as appropriate, of the World Bank Global Road Safety Facility;

Encourages the promotion of capacity-building, knowledge-sharing, technical support and technology transfer programmes and initiatives on mutually agreed terms in the area of road safety, especially in developing countries, which confront unique challenges and, where possible, the integration of such programmes and initiatives into sustainable development assistance programmes through North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation formats, as well as public-private collaboration;

Calls upon relevant actors and United Nations entities to monitor and conduct research on the impact of evolving technologies, including artificial intelligence, on land transport and road safety in order to inform the development of guidelines and recommendations to address the opportunities and challenges presented by these issues;

Calls upon Member States to strengthen the collection, reporting and use of data related to road safety as a means of generating real-time feedback to inform the implementation of the Global Plan for the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030;

Requests the Secretary-General to provide, in consultation with the World Health Organization and other relevant agencies, a progress report during the eightieth session of the General Assembly, as mandated in the political declaration of 2022, which will serve to inform the high-level meeting to be convened by the Assembly in 2026.