The Asia–Pacific Road Safety Observatory (APRSO) is the regional forum on road safety data, policies, and practices to ensure the protection of human life on roads across Asia and the Pacific. Its mission is to support countries to generate robust road safety data and analysis to positively impact on policies and actions for road safety in the region.

APRSO provides a platform for decision-makers from countries in the region to share experiences and learn about best practices to address the ongoing road safety epidemic. One of the major outputs of the observatory is a report prepared by a task force on a minimum set of indicators for road safety.1 This report utilized the work of the task force in its preparation.

The key objectives of this report are to assess and recommend data to be collected and used at the national level as well as asses the data to be shared with the APRSO by member countries.

Chapter 2 establishes the conceptual framework in developing and organizing the indicators. Chapter 3 proposes crash data elements to be collected at the national level. Chapter 4 recommends crash data reporting to the APRSO.

Chapter 5 discusses safety performance indicators (SPIs) at the national level, and Chapter 6 details SPIs at the regional level. Finally, Chapter 7 discusses process and implementation indicators for both the national and regional levels.