# VIA Software > Canonical: https://www.via.nl/gbr/en/products/via-software Road safety starts with insight. - Daily updated data - Police, local authorities and regions - STATS19 and HERE data combined ## One platform for road safety VIA Software brings together the most important data sources for road safety in one environment. Police, municipalities and provinces work with the same figures, the same maps and the same analysis tools — and can easily share findings with elected officials and other partners. The platform helps road authorities, police and policy-makers answer road-safety questions. By bringing together multiple data sources, it creates a complete picture of developments, risks and opportunities across the road network. ### Policy and strategy: What are we going to do about it? Road-safety policy requires choices. By combining risk indicators, a risk-based picture of the network emerges. Accidents, speed behaviour and road characteristics help you set priorities, choose measures and justify investments. ### Internal analysis: What is happening here? Road-safety investigations often start with a specific trigger. By combining accident data, speed behaviour and road characteristics, a complete picture of the situation quickly emerges. This supports traffic engineers, policy advisers and enforcement officers in analyses, evaluating measures and road-safety studies. ### Public enquiries: Is the signal justified? Reports from residents are often the first indicators of potential road-safety problems. Historical and current accident data, speed data and road characteristics allow these signals to be assessed quickly and objectively. This supports transparent and fact-based communication with residents, elected officials and everyone else involved. ## VIA Software in use Every month, we help more than a thousand professionals work with data-driven road safety. - **1,000+** — Professionals using VIA Software every month - **3** — Data sources combined in one platform - **100+** — Municipalities, regions and police units as users ## From data to decision The Safe System approach asks road authorities to work risk-based: tackling risks before an accident happens. VIA Software puts the risk indicators you steer on onto one map — accidents, actual speeds and road characteristics. That way you decide where to act first, find the cause and justify the measure. No specialist knowledge of data analysis required. After the measure, a before/after report shows its effect. The insights are also used directly in management reports, grant applications and regional consultations. Municipalities and regions using the platform can communicate about road safety quickly and credibly — internally and externally. ## Based on reliable data sources - **Accidents** — Insight into where traffic accidents occur, which road users are involved and what trends are visible over time. · bron: STATS19 · Annual update · Great Britain - **Speeds** — Insight into actual speed behaviour on the road network, including average speeds, V85 values and speed trends per road segment. · Daily update · National coverage - **Road type and speed limit** — Insight into how each road is laid out: speed limit, road function, urban or rural, number of lanes, dual carriageways, surfacing and speed humps. · Updated with each map release · National coverage - **Surroundings** — Insight into what happens along the road: how dense the buildings are, how many shops and restaurants there are, where people want to cross, how hard that is and which roads lie on the walking route to a school. · Updated with each map release · National coverage Together these data sources underpin the risk-based way of working that the Safe System approach asks of every road authority: prioritise, analyse, take measures and evaluate the effect.