Road safety management in the Decades of Action: meditating on the case of Costa Rica

The Ministry of Public Works and Transportation -MOPT -of Costa Rica, is one of the entities with the highest degree of administrative deconcentration.The MOPT and its deconcentrated departments in Councils define the policies and actions of the sector.Furthermore, the country is a signatory of bothDecades of Action for Road Safety, a situation that is analyzed.As a goal at workThe changes that have occurred in the institutional definition of road safety administration since the creation of Cosevi in 1979 are studied.In addition, the current statistical panorama of road safety in the country is shown.It is analyzed how these aforementioned changes and the administrative legal practice impact the concept of a leading institution in road safety and its systemic approach, considering both the integral concept of the joint action of engineering, inspection and road education, as well as the postulates of the First Decade in terms of management.Finally, in addition to positioning itself on bill 23114, which would concentrate the functions under analysis in the MOPT, recommendations are made for road administration in general and for the real consolidation of Cosevi in its operational and administrative components.