The paper focuses on motorization − the growth in ownership and use of motorized vehicles − and its impact on energy demand and emissions with particular reference to the developing world. It examines the strategy currently pursued in the developed and the developing countries to improve air quality in cities, with particular emphasis on the cities in Asia and South America, where air pollution...

Road traffic injury (RTI) is the leading cause of death in persons aged 10-24 worldwide and accounts for about 15% of all male deaths. The burden of RTI is unevenly distributed amongst countries with over eighty-fold differences between the highest and lowest death rates. Thus the unequal risk of RTI occurring in the developing world, due to many reasons, including but not limited to rapid moto...

OBJECTIVE To predict the burden caused by fatal road traffic injuries from 2015 to 2030. METHODS We searched the websites of United Nations Population Division,United States Department of Agriculture, World Health Organization, China Energy Research Foundation and other agencies to obtain the predictive values of gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, urbanization, motorization and educatio...

The increase of health effects caused by air pollution seems to be a growing concern in Asian cities with increasing motorization. This paper discusses methods of estimating the health effects of air pollution in large Asian cities. Due to the absence of statistical data in Asia, this paper carefully chooses the methodology using data of the Japanese compensation system. A basic idea of health ...

An estimated 1.2 million people worldwide are estimated to be killed and 50 million injured in road traffic accidents each year. Statistics reveal that every 3 minutes a child is killed on the world’s roads, and more than 80% of road deaths occur in low and middle income countries. According to some estimates, it is expected that, in the year 2020:  road deaths will increase by 80%;  road tra...

Road traffic crash-related death, injury, and chronic disability continue to be a major worldwide burden to drivers, pedestrians, and users of mass transit, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Projections predict worsening of this burden, and while motorization of LMIC increases exponentially, a corresponding improvement in prehospital and acute in-hospital trauma care has no...

Continuous motorization and urbanization around the globe leads to an expansion of population in major cities. Therefore, ever-growing pressure imposed on the existing mass transit systems calls for a better technology, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), to solve many new and demanding management issues. Many studies in the extant ITS literature attempted to address these issues within w...

Exponential technological-based growth in industrialization and urbanization, the ease of mobility that modern motorization offers have significantly transformed social structures living standards. As a result, electric vehicles (EVs) gained widespread popularity as mode sustainable transport. The increasing demand for has reduced some environmental issues urban space requirements parking road ...

Recent analysis has shown deteriorating traffic conditions in urban areas, caused by an increase the motorization rate, which risen to 66.6 vehicles per 100 inhabitants. As a result of pandemic, individuality grown, hence private are becoming more prevalent whilst public transport and sharing negatively affected. Therefore, European policies have encouraged innovated sustainable mobility. Thus,...

Cities in developing countries like India are facing some of the same concerns that North American cities are: congestion and urban growth. However, the concern in cities like New Delhi, India is that this growth is far more rapid as both urbanization and motorization are ongoing processes that have not yet peaked. Furthermore air quality in major Indian cities is now becoming a major concern w...