Demerit Point Systems (DPS) have been implemented by numerous legislations all over the European Union to enhance road safety by reducing crashes through sanctioning risky road safety behaviour. Most of them have been designed more or less sophistically and as a consequence of the lack of evaluation the positive effects of various DPS systems are difficult to estimate.

The objective of BESTPOINT is to collect, analyze, summarize and disseminate best practice criteria for DPS as well as to develop a tool towards harmonisation on European level. To achieve this goal a comprehensive literature analysis will be carried out which will besides expertise be the foundation for evaluation tools. With the help of those tools and an EU-wide data collection regarding DPS a best practice criteria list will be derived which will be further discussed on the national and the European level. Final outcome will be best practice guidelines (handbook) for the implementation of an effective demerit point system.