Topic area: Prohibitions, requirements and restrictions

Modern and safe roads need comprehensible, efficient and transparent laws for road users and operators.

Initial situation

Successful safety work is based on the ongoing development and adaptation of the legal framework. To this end, the legal and normative framework conditions must be continuously reviewed to ensure that they are up to date, comprehensible, effective and applicable, and to develop proposals for improvement. The focus is on

  • Interests and laws that conflict with security concerns
  • Barriers in the distribution of competencies, federalism
    Improvements in comprehensibility, publicity
  • Lack of knowledge or information among the target groups
  • Limited applicability of some regulations
  • Acceptance by politicians and users

Goal levels

Efficient and accurate rules and regulations can make a substantial contribution to increasing the safety of road users.

ASFINAG is actively involved in shaping the legal and normative basis in order to be able to offer its customers a safe freeway and expressway network under economically and ecologically justifiable conditions.

  • Consideration of different legal matters with regard to conflicting traffic safety objectives
  • Simplifying and increasing the efficiency of controls and sanctions
  • Aiming for uniform and clear announcements on the network
  • Support with training on technical and legal content
  • Evaluation of the basis for testing fitness to drive

Expectations until 2030

The regulatory framework for the construction, operation and
use of highways are becoming increasingly complex.

This leads to increasing responsibility in planning
planning, but also to an increasing demand
on the user.

ASFINAG therefore strives to play a proactive role in the adaptation of the relevant regulations in the interests of
sustainable improvement of road safety.

Actionsfocuses

  • Maximum speed in the rain
    Reduction of real speeds in rain and wet conditions
  • Signage
    Standardization of signage for easier comprehension and better understanding
    Section control
  • Expansion of the areas of application of section control systems