Czech National Road Safety Observatory

The main purpose of SENZOR project is to improve road safety in the Czech Republic by supporting the effective decision making processes regarding safety countermeasures on all state levels – national, regional and local – with help of the information and data obtained from the Czech National Road Safety Observatory (CZRSO). CZRSO consists of informative part and data part. Centrum dopravniho výzkumu, v.v.i. (Transport Research Centre, Czech Republic), which coordinates SENZOR project, is one of major cooperants of SafetyNet (6th European Union framework programme), which puts Czech Republic near the realization of mentioned objective. The paper describes SENZOR and CZRSO and focuses on data part with Safety Performance Indicators (SPIs). In the end, one case of SPI data use is shown.