This paper will provide an overview of the main progress of the Italian government in these last two years in the field of road safety. It focus on the follow up of the “National plan on road safety”, adopted two years ago.

For the first time Italy waged a plan to encompass all the aspects related to the road safety. All the actors in these field have been involved in a common strategy:​ Central Administration, Local Administrations, Road Management Authority etc. had the common task regarding priorities, effectiveness and transparency directives. In the following statement it will be shown the ways of its application. Even though the plan has been designed to focus on the reduction of road casualties, the plan has demonstrated its capacity also as a living structure devoted to time lasting, due to his annual revision of the goals, performed on the basis of critical analysis of obtained results.