Most authorities have a considerable amount of information available on road accident casualties which informs their Road Safety Plans. Those strategies which contain a comprehensive analysis of issues tend to be those which are the best developed overall. It presents a tabular overview of problems and opportunities. The Guidance indicates that strategies should provide an overview of how the measures making up the strategy interrelate, contribute to addressing problems and opportunities and meet objectives. They should address modal interaction and policy linkages.
Strategies vary in the extent to which they are well integrated and coherent.
Some are well integrated, flow from objectives and contain good modal coverage and consideration of policy linkages. Others contain many of these elements but do not clearly link them together into a strategy. Some strategies have yet to be developed beyond a basic analysis of issues. A few strategies which present proposals for action lack coherence or a clear relationship to objectives. The best strategies tend to be those which contain clear statements of policies and actions on individual modes which are linked back explicitly to objectives to whose achievement the specific actions will contribute.