This paper describes an attempt to shed some light on road safety in Asia Pacific region by characterizing and assessing its road accidents. The relevant national road accident data were extracted from centralized data sources of international agencies. Due to data incompleteness and missing values, 21 Asia Pacific countries, presenting more than half of the world’s population, were selected fo...

Systemic shift, in which the weight of global economy has shifted away from Euro-Atlantic eastwards, is increasingly underlined by what referred to here as ‘Asianisation Asia'. Asianisation a process Asia's diverse regions steadily converge around shared economic agendas. Japan, followed so-called ‘Asian Tigers’, were pioneers Asian process, began earnest mid-1960s. China and India, drivers pre...