Project

At the Swedish Traffic Safety Days arranged by SAFER on October 21st 2025, it was several times mentioned how important it is to count on things. In Analys av trafiksäkerhetsutvecklingen 2024, the Swedish Transport Administration states that based on the outcomes for 2024, it will be very difficult to achieve the milestone goals for 2030 and based on the rate of development of the indicators, extensive efforts are required immediately to reach the milestone goals. The report lists a number of indicators and the necessary development for each one to 2030. Like 

• At least 96 percent of traffic on roads with a speed limit over 80 km/h should take place on roads that are divided with a median barrier.
• In urban areas, a new base speed of 40 km/h is assumed to be a basic prerequisite for achieving a safe urban environment. In addition, 30 km/h needs to be ensured in areas where unprotected road users mix with car traffic frequently and in a planned manner. It is necessary that 99 percent of the road length in urban areas meets this by 2030.

The purpose with this project is to collect, carry out and compile overall calculations of what it would cost to address a few of the most important infrastructure measures on national and municipal roads mentioned above to increase traffic safety in Sweden. Further, the purpose is to compare these costs with estimated costs of some planned and proposed infrastructure projects.  

The project will start by choosing a few of the traffic safety measures that the Swedish Transport Administration have pointed out to meet Vision Zero and the milestone goals to 2030. We will then collect already existing cost estimates, project specific costs and standard costs of chosen traffic safety measures together with estimations of how many kilometers/places are still in need of the measure. When we have the quantity and cost estimates overall calculations will be made.

Finally, the results will be compiled in a short report together with a comparative analysis and discussion. We will also relate the investment cost and estimated socioeconomic gains with other objects in the National transport plan or municipal budgets.

The result is a short report aimed at further discussion on investment in safe infrastructure and, hopefully, decision making.