Safer Roads: Comparisons Between Road Assessment Program and Composite Road Safety Index Method

Uncertainty assessment of the road safety index

Composite indicators aggregate domain-specific information in one index, on the basis of which countries can be assigned a relative ranking. Recently, the road safety community got convinced of the policy supporting role of indicators in terms of benchmarking, target setting and selection of measures. However, combining the information of a set of relevant risk indicators in one index presentin...

Road traffic injury on rural roads in Tanzania: measuring the effectiveness of a road safety program.

OBJECTIVE Road traffic injuries (RTIs) are a major public health burden, especially in low- and middle-income countries. There is limited data on RTIs in low-volume, rural African settings. This study attempted to survey all individuals living in households within 200 m of two low-volume rural roads in Tanzania and to collect data on RTIs. METHODS Local communities and users of the Bago to Ta...

Reconstruction of Roads – Road to Safety

The analysis of the existing condition of Serbian road network from the safety aspect, aiming at proving necessity for road network reconstruction as the basic precondition for reducing great number of traffic accidents is prepared in this paper.

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Estimation Model of Two-Lane Rural Roads Safety Index According to Characteristics of the Road and Drivers’ Behavior

Vehicle crashes are amongst the major causes of mortality and results in losses of lives and properties. A large number of the vehicle crashes occur on rural roads. Accidents become more noteworthy in two-lane roads due to going and coming traffic. Therefore, prediction of crashes and their causes are considerably important to reduce the number and severity of the accidents. The safety index is...