These guidelines authored by A Quimby, B Hills, C Baguley and J Fletcher and published by the Department of International Development (DFID) have been developed in 2003 for local and regional highway authority officers for road safety issues in urban areas. The objective is to give these agencies the tools to implement Urban Safety Management (USM) techniques, enabling them to tackle road safety probllems on a broad front including engineering, education, publicity campaigns and enforcement.