Road safety is a key concern of transport governance. In the European Union, a Road Safety Programme was adopted in 2011, with the objective to reduce road deaths in Europe by 50% in the period from 2011 to 2020. Evidence suggests, however, that this goal will not be met. Against this background, this paper investigates police perspectives on traffic laws, traffic behaviour, and transport polic...

3 FOREWORD The Road Transport and Intermodal Linkages Research Programme is a cooperative approach among OECD Member countries to address technical, economic and policy issues relevant to safe and efficient road transport. The Programme, through its broader linkages to other modes of transport, reflects a multimodal approach to common transport problems and represents a combined attempt to redu...

Intermodal transport, the combination and integration of several transport modes, with the use of loading units, is in most cases more environmentally friendly than unimodal road transport for the carriage of goods. The LAMBIT-model (Location Analysis Model for Belgian Intermodal Terminals) has been developed to analyse the market areas of existing and potential intermodal terminals. In the LAM...

Hydrogen fuel cells are increasingly seen as the propulsion technology of the future for road transport. However, despite the potential of this technology to reduce the environmental impact of road transport and to improve energy efficiency, both technical and economic barriers need to be overcome for it to be successfully introduced in mass markets. At Imperial College we are currently underta...

background: the global status report of the world health organization (who) on road safety suggested that india is leading in road traffi c accidents in the world. according to the report on road accidents in india in 2010 by the transport research wing, ministry of road transport and highways, new delhi, kerala ranked third in accidents per lakh population and second in persons injured per lak...