BACKGROUND Road traffic injuries (RTIs) constitute 45% of injury mortality in Egypt; 75% of these injuries are pedestrians related. Traditionally, research on road traffic safety has focused on the traffic environment and the vehicles. However, little attention has been given to road risky behaviors and perceptions of road safety by pedestrians as risk factors associated with high pedestrian in...

Road traffic accidents have been on the increase ever since in Tanzania, despite some considerable efforts to minimise the problem. Road safety management is widely used worldwide in various forms and at different levels of refinement to manage traffic safety. Safety Management System (SMS) incorporating system approach of problem solving technique and Road Safety Audit (RSA) approach is recomm...

Mainland China accounted for about 7% of the global road fatalities in 2008. Road crashes happening on Chinese roads were deadly. On average, one person died in every four reported traffic crashes. Despite the scarcity of data, substantial rural-urban differences were found. In the rural areas, higher-order Highways, roads with no lighting and some heavy vehicles warrant particular attention fr...

The number of road vehicles significantly increased in recent decades. This trend accompanied a build-up of road infrastructure and development of various control systems to increase road traffic safety, road capacity and travel comfort. In traffic safety significant development has been made and today’s systems more and more include cameras and computer vision methods. Cameras are used as part...

Given the increasing vehicle numbers and expanding road construction in developing countries, the importance of safe road user behaviour is critical. Road traffic crashes (RTCs) are a significant problem in Pakistan; however, the factors that contribute to RTCs in Pakistan are not well researched. Fatalistic beliefs are a potential barrier to the enhancement of road safety, especially participa...

OBJECTIVES To assess the effectiveness of community/environmental interventions undertaken as part of the Child Pedestrian Injury Prevention Project (CPIPP). SETTING Three communities (local government areas) in the Perth metropolitan area, Western Australia. METHODS A quasiexperimental community intervention trial was undertaken over three years (1995-97). Three communities were assigned t...

The facts around current and projected levels of road trauma eed little introduction: in 2012 road injury was the ninth leadng cause of worldwide deaths (WHO, 2014) and it is estimated hat by 2030 it will be the fifth (WHO, 2009). Its presence in the orld Health Organisation’s top ten causes of death gives a clear ndication of the scale of the problem: currently road injury stands lone within t...

a Department of Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability, World Health Organization, 20 avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. Correspondence to Tami Toroyan (e-mail: [email protected]). Road traffic injuries are a leading public health problem, resulting in over 1.2 million deaths each year.1 They affect all age groups but their impact is most striking among the young: they are the lea...

Statistical data of P.R. China indicate that traffic accidents on curved roads take a large proportion of the total road accidents. To improve safety and driving comfort on curved roads, a mathematic speed model is developed to determine an optimised safety speed on curved roads. The model takes quantitative static road environment parameters (such as curvature, road gradient, superelevation, r...

This paper inTroduces a framework inTegraTing available elemenTs of a safeTy conscious design process in one concise, pracTice-orienTed algoriThm. implemenTaTion of The proposed framework should enhance The consisTency and depTh of safeTy consideraTions in TransporTaTion corridor planning and design projecTs. inTroducTion It is relatively common for safety issues to remain undetected at the tra...