ABOUT

Neither road safety nor low-carbon transport can be accomplished unless NMT is taken into full consideration. Share the Road: Minimum 10% Finance for Safety, Environment and Accessibility is a joint initiative of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the FIA Foundation for the Automobile and Society (FIA Foundation) and a growing list of partner organizations. The goal is to improve safe access to sustainable transport by advocating road design and finance that is inclusive of all users.

Share the Road supports a paradigm shift in the way everyone, including policy makers, designers and road finance institutions, thinks about roads and how they are constructed. It promotes sustainable transport, which by definition considers all users and encompasses the three aspects of safety, environment and accessibility. The central overlap of these key features is the role played by safe infrastructure for non-motorised transport (NMT, also called human-powered transport, active transport, healthy transport).

Investments in safe NMT infrastructure – both the facilities and the integrated network – are the central overlapping action that can trigger positive feedback loops in all three aspects of safety, environment and accessibility.