In the past 35 years I have gained a lot of experience as a traffic consultant in various projects at municipal, provincial and national level. Often focused on the development of new methods and techniques, supported by data systems and databases.After graduating from the Traffic Academy in Tilburg (Netherlands) in 1984, I started my own consulting firm, today’s VIA. From the start road safety and IT were my focus areas. In the early nineties VIA launched its first traffic engineering software for governments, an accident analysing programme (ViaStat), the current VIA Software.Since 2012 VIA focuses completely on the development of traffic-ICT aimed at providing insight into road safety, stimulating automated work processes and bringing together people and knowledge. We do this using our software and by organizing trainings. All our software is web-based, available on a tablet and internationally applicable. The VIA Software has over 2,000 users.To achieve our goals, we work closely with various partners in the field of data (eg speed data from HERE), different road safety organizations and professional organizations (eg National Police and Association of Insurers for STAR accident reporting).I believe that top designed data systems and software can improve road safety through road safety management, training, data collection and analysis with practical applications for politicians, professionals and the public. Therefor we work at VIA on Capacity Building for road safety.