Road Traffic Fatalities Analysis in AEC Countries

2014 ◽  
Vol 931-932 ◽  
pp. 546-550
Author(s):  
Pongrid Klungboonkrong ◽  
Natthapoj Faiboun
Keyword(s):  
Road Safety ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Motor Vehicles ◽  
Status Report ◽  
Traffic Fatalities ◽  
Brunei Darussalam ◽  
Global Status ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Asean Economic Community ◽  
National Road

Based on a Global Status Report on Road Safety in 2009 [ and in 2013 [, 2007 and 2010 Road Traffic Fatalities (RTFs) data for ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) countries were analyzed and compared, respectively. In this research, both reported and estimated RTFs per 100,000 populations showed relatively low correlation with Gross National Incomes (GNIs) per capita among AEC countries. In contrast, the reported and estimated RTFs per 1,000 vehicles showed reasonably high correlation with both GNIs per capita and number of vehicles per 1,000 populations. The greater the GNIs per capita and/or number of vehicles per 1,000 populations, the lower the reported and estimated RTFs per 1,000 vehicles are. As GNI per capita increases, the proportion of 4-wheeled motor vehicles will rise and the proportion of 2-and 3-wheeled motor vehicles will decline. Therefore, 2-and 3-wheeled motor vehicles were the main contributor to RTFs. The improvement of the adoption and enforcement of national road safety legislation can be generally realized. However, only high income countries (including Singapore and Brunei Darussalam) clearly showed the high performances and only these two countries has adopted and enforced the child-restraint law.

scholarly journals 76 European facts and the global status report on road safety 2015

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (Suppl 2) ◽  
pp. A29.2-A29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josephine Jackisch ◽  
Dinesh Sethi ◽  
Francesco Mitis ◽  
Tomasz Szymañski ◽  
Ian Arra
Keyword(s):  
Road Safety ◽  
Status Report ◽  
Global Status

scholarly journals A Population Approach to Transportation Planning: Reducing Exposure to Motor-Vehicles

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Fuller ◽  
Patrick Morency
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Transportation Planning ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Motor Vehicles ◽  
Traffic Fatalities ◽  
Public Health Burden ◽  
Fundamental Causes ◽  
Moving Vehicles ◽  
Fundamental Cause ◽  
Transportation Research

Transportation planning and public health have important historical roots. To address common challenges, including road traffic fatalities, integration of theories and methods from both disciplines is required. This paper presents an overview of Geoffrey Rose's strategy of preventive medicine applied to road traffic fatalities. One of the basic principles of Rose's strategy is that a large number of people exposed to a small risk can generate more cases than a small number exposed to a high risk. Thus, interventions should address the large number of people exposed to the fundamental causes of diseases. Exposure to moving vehicles could be considered a fundamental cause of road traffic deaths and injuries. A global reduction in the amount of kilometers driven would result in a reduction of the likelihood of collisions for all road users. Public health and transportation research must critically appraise their practice and engage in informed dialogue with the objective of improving mobility and productivity while simultaneously reducing the public health burden of road deaths and injuries.

scholarly journals Drugged driving in South Africa: An urgent need for review and reform

2019 ◽  
pp. 7-18
Author(s):  
Jade Liebenberg ◽  
Lorraine Du Toit-Prinsloo ◽  
Gert Saayman ◽  
Vanessa Steenkamp
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Road Safety ◽  
Traffic Accident ◽  
Drug Testing ◽  
Drugs Of Abuse ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Driving Under The Influence ◽  
Drugged Driving ◽  
National Road

  Driving under the influence is a major threat to road safety in South Africa. Various psychoactive substances (both licit and illicit) have the potential to adversely affect driving performance and increase the probability of a road traffic accident. While it is common practice in South Africa to test drivers for alcohol levels, testing for additional impairing substances (including drugs of abuse) is rarely performed. In terms of current South African legislation, only driving under the influence of alcohol and a ‘drug having a “narcotic” effect’ is prohibited. This excludes several impairing psychoactive drugs which are not classified as narcotic substances. The aim of this article is to highlight issues and/or limitations surrounding drugged driving and to propose appropriate considerations for revision of the National Road Traffic Act. We also recommend revising existing legislation to include a comprehensive statutory definition and detailed provisions for drug testing to deter impaired driving.

scholarly journals An investigation into road safety education in KwaZulu-Natal

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Neeraj Sunker
Keyword(s):  
Road Safety ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Safety Education ◽  
Traffic Fatalities ◽  
The Road ◽  
Active Population ◽  
Historical Factors ◽  
Teenagers And Young Adults

Road fatalities claim more than one million lives annually worldwide. The emotional, social and economic impact of road traffic fatalities demands urgent attention globally. This epidemic of road traffic fatalities is plaguing everyone, especially the poorer nations. Some countries like Australia and Sweden have been more successful than others in combating this epidemic. South Africa is currently seeking strategies to combat this epidemic because South Africa’s road traffic fatalities have been increasing annually, with a substantial percentage of teenagers and young adults between the ages of 16 and 29 contributing to these statistics. This age group will become or already have become part of the economically active population and concern is mounting as to why this particular age group is vulnerable. This thesis provides an overview of the road safety problem globally, nationally, provincially and locally and also looks at the historical factors that have contributed to this problem. The Victorian model, which has been classified as the ‘world’s best practice’, has been reviewed. A pilot survey was conducted at the Mangosuthu Technikon and the focal survey was conducted at the tertiary institutions in the Durban area. Students from this sector were selected as they fall in the most vulnerable age group and data was collected from them on various aspects of road safety. On analysing the data, various problems were identified, in particular, lack of resources and limited education pertaining to road safety. A range of possible solutions is recommended and the focus areas are the 3E’s namely: education, enforcement and engineering. However, the focal recommendation is on education and looks at the possibility of introducing learner’s licence testing to the grade 12 syllabi.

scholarly journals Impact of Road Safety Laws in Colombia on Road Traffic Collision Fatalities and Injuries

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (s1) ◽  
pp. s65-s65
Author(s):  
Killiam A. Argote ◽  
Michael S Molloy ◽  
Alexander Hart ◽  
Amalia Voskanyan ◽  
Ritu R Sarin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Road Safety ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Safety Plan ◽  
Road Traffic Collision ◽  
The Government ◽  
National Road

Introduction:Road traffic collisions (RTC) are the leading cause of preventable death among those aged 15–29 years worldwide. More than 1.2 million lives are lost each year on roads. Ninety percent of these deaths take place in low- and middle-income countries. The General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) proclaimed the period from 2011-2020 the “Decade of Action for Road Safety,” with the objective of stabilizing and reducing the number of deaths by 50% worldwide. In this context, the government of Colombia established the National Road Safety Plan (PNSV) for the period 2011–2021 with the objective of reducing the number of fatalities by 26%. However, the effectiveness of road safety policies in Colombia is still unknown.Aim:To evaluate the effect of road safety laws on the incidence of RTC, deaths, and injuries in Colombia.Methods:RTC data and fatality numbers for the time period of January 1, 2010, to December 31, 2017, were collated from official Colombian governmental publications and analyzed for reductions and trends related to the introduction of new road safety legislation.Results:Data analysis are expected to be completed by January 2019.Discussion:RTC remains the leading preventable cause of death in Colombia despite the PNSV. Data is being mined to determine the trends of these rates of crashes and fatalities, and their relation to the introduction of national traffic laws. Overall, while the absolute numbers of RTC and deaths have been increasing, the rate of RTC per 10,000 cars has been decreasing. This suggests that although the goals of the PNSV may not be realized, some of the laws emanating from it may be beneficial, but warrant further detailed analysis.

Use of SafeFITS mathematical modeling in a road safety management system

2018 ◽  
pp. 7-15
Author(s):  
Volodymyr Ageev ◽  
Andrii Horpinyuk ◽  
Arseniy Khabutdinov ◽  
Volodymyr Koskovetsky
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Modeling ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Road Safety ◽  
Management System ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Safety Performance ◽  
Traffic Fatalities ◽  
Safety Management System ◽  
Traffic Incident

The results of the work of the UNECE ITC on the development of the SafeFITS tool were reviewed, the indicators proposed in the framework of this tool for assessing the effectiveness of making management decisions in order to ensure road safety were analyzed and the possibility and relevance of its application in Ukraine were considered. Keywords: road safety, road traffic incident, road traffic fatalities and injuries, road safety performance indicators (RSPI), road safety management system.

scholarly journals Global status report on road safety

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 286-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Toroyan
Keyword(s):  
Road Safety ◽  
Status Report ◽  
Global Status

scholarly journals Time-varying effect of drunk driving regulations on road traffic mortality in Guangzhou, China: an interrupted time-series analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao-Han Xu ◽  
Hang Dong ◽  
Li Li ◽  
Zhou Yang ◽  
Guo-Zhen Lin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Road Traffic ◽  
Drunk Driving ◽  
Interrupted Time Series ◽  
Motor Vehicles ◽  
Average Risk ◽  
Time Varying ◽  
Traffic Fatalities ◽  
Interrupted Time Series Analysis ◽  
Intervention Measures ◽  
Daily Data

Abstract Background China has introduced a series of stricter policies to criminalize drunk driving and increase penalties since May 2011. However, there is no previous study examining the time-varying impacts of drunk driving regulations on road traffic fatalities based on daily data. Methods We collected 6536 individual data of road traffic deaths (RTDs) in Guangzhou from 2008 to 2018. The quasi-Poisson regression models with an inclusion of the intervention variable and the interaction of intervention variable and a function of time were used to quantify the time-varying effects of these regulations. Results During the 11-year study period, the number of population and motor vehicles showed a steady upward trend. However, the population- and motor vehicles- standardized RTDs rose steadily before May 2011, the criminalizing drunk driving intervention was implemented and gradually declined after that. The new drunk driving intervention were associated with an average risk reduction of RTDs (ER = -9.01, 95% eCI: − 10.05% to − 7.62%) during the 7.7 years after May 2011. On average, 75.82 (95% eCI, 54.06 to 92.04) RTDs per 1 million population annually were prevented due to the drunk driving intervention. Conclusion These findings would provide important implications for the development of integrated intervention measures in China and other countries attempting to reduce traffic fatalities by stricter regulations on drunk driving.

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