There is a perception that transportation professionals can do little about adverse weather effects because it is “Mother Nature”. Accordingly, most of the weather responsive strategies are reactive such as speed management, access control and other operational practices. In fact, particular weather factors should be considered during the design, perhaps even the project planning stages, to avo...

This paper compiles, evaluates and analyses information from different data sources on accidents and health, road transport and economic performance in a comprehensive manner to assess the size and impact of road accidents and injuries in regions under increasing motorization. Strategies based on global road safety improvement experiences are presented. In addition the paper aims at discussing ...

To evaluate the road safety development of a country over time, the percentage change in the number of road fatalities is traditionally the main indicator. However, simply considering the reduction in the road fatalities may not correctly reflect the real improvement in road safety because the transport circumstances of a country underlying the road fatalities also change every year. In this st...

Despite many efforts to improve road safety, the road accident statistics remain a concern throughout the world. This work, after considering for France in particular the possible reasons for this, proposes to extend the issue of Road Safety to the land planning problematic which responds to the characteristics of a spatialized complex system. The methodology used in the ANR program CRITERE mix...

India had earned the dubious distinction of having more number of fatalities due to road accidents in the world. Road safety is emerging as a major social concern around the world especially in India. Drinking and driving is already a serious public health problem, which is likely to emerge as one of the most significant problems in the near future. The role of alcohol in traffic safety has pro...

So far, road safety is studies with the general purpose traffic simulation models extended towards including conflict statistics. This approach, however, is inherently limited. The dynamic road safety model should incorporate the variables that are critical for road incidents but superfluous for simulating general traffic: the characteristics of mechanical and functional characteristics of vehi...

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...