The First Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety was hosted by President Medvedev and the Russian Government in November 2009. This is a major public health issue in Russia, but also in many other developing countries. While the current economic crisis has focused the policy attention on important macroeconomic and unemployment and poverty issues, it is important to recall other major soc...

Abstract Global convergence of public policies has been regarded as a defining feature the late twentieth century. This study explores generalizability this thesis for three road safety measures: (i) agencies; (ii) child restraint laws; and (iii) mandatory use daytime running lights. analyzes cross-national longitudinal data using survival analysis years 1964–2015 in 181 countries. The first ma...

Road anger constitutes one of the determinant factors related to safety outcomes (e.g., accidents, near misses). Although cyclists are considered vulnerable road users due to their relatively high rate of fatalities in traffic, previous research has solely focused on car drivers, and no study has yet investigated the effect of anger on cyclists' safety outcomes. The present research aims to inv...

road traffic injuries as a man-made calamity impose great burden on poor people and needs to be addressed through social justice and end of poverty. pointing out that around 186,300 children under the age of 18 are killed every year, and much more are injured, urgent need to work on road safety measures will be revealed. although preventing road traffic crashes from occurring should be the main...

To assist in the on-going effort to reduce road fatalities as much as possible, this paper presents a new methodology to evaluate road safety in both the design and redesign stages of two-lane rural highways. This methodology is based on the analysis of road geometric design consistency, a value which will be a surrogate measure of the safety level of the two-lane rural road segment. The consis...

BACKGROUND There is widespread recognition of the problem of unsafe care and extensive efforts have been made over the last 15 years to improve patient safety. In Sweden, a new patient safety law obliges the 21 county councils to assemble a yearly patient safety report (PSR). The aim of this study was to describe the patient safety work carried out in Sweden by analysing the PSRs with regard to...

Architectures for communication between road vehicles and road infrastructure are under development. The new applications made possible by advanced communication create new opportunities and new safety challenges. The functional safety aspects so far considered for single vehicles have to be considered also for cooperative systems of road vehicles. The report is the result of a study identifyin...

Injuries caused by traffic accidents cause many deaths and disabilities children. Road traffic injuries are the main cause of death between the ages of 15 and 19 years and is the second cause of death among 5 to 14 year olds. Children's attitudes about driving and safe use of roads formed in 11 years. Road traffic injuries is one of the five cause of disability among children. Most victims betw...

During the last decades gender and diversity have become a business case in many respects. Therefore, organisations have to learn not only to consider gender and diversity issues as hindrances or problems but as opportunities to develop new competences. Organisational learning in this sense means to become aware of gender and diversity issues by questioning the daily “doing gender” and “doing d...